Word: summing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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First thought went to the practical obstacles : sum total of all South American navies comes to about 70 warcraft, excluding gunboats, and South America has 8,500 Atlantic seacoastmiles, 5,300 Pacific. Must the U. S., with an adequate one-ocean Navy, build one big enough to patrol four seas...
...should that staggering $8,000,000,000 be raised? Although he hinted (and the next day confirmed) that half the sum would be borrowed, all Sir John's emphasis was on direct taxation. The guiding principle, he informed his colleagues, would be to impose all the taxes the country could stand. Normal standards of what was popular no longer counted, said he; furthermore, one of his aims was to curtail civilian demands. "There must be restrictions directed against wasteful or unnecessary use of resources, restrictions which limit consumption of a long list of articles, the strictest economy all along...
...Arts. Cause: the assembling, judging and opening of the eighth annual National Ceramic Exhibition. For ceramists, the occasion was excuse for a jolly get-together, as well as a chance to see what other designers were up to. Lay folk could admire and be amused by the assorted exhibits. Sum of their reaction: bric-a-brac is coming back...
After its first meeting of the year the Student Council last night announced the collection for its Budget of the largest sum since 1931. During the three days of registration the Council collected $4,578.75 in cash and obtained $4,099 in pledges, a total...
Compared to last year when a total of $5,041 was collected, the cash sum is above average. Douglas Mercer '40, Council Treasurer, said that a drive would be made to collect pledges by a November 30 deadline, with pledges payable to the Harvard Student Council in Phillips Brooks House any time until then...