Word: summing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...parting was sweet sorrow, for to each man the paymaster handed severance money that averaged 10,000 bolivianos ($250). At the prevailing 50? a day, that was almost a year and a half's pay, a lump sum greater than most Indians had ever seen. There would be drinking and feasting in the company's bars before they went back to work...
...have to be protected by special restrictions against seepage. The American negotiators told him he was wrong; they said 3.75 billion was enough, and that Britain, in .the interests of freer world trade, would have to throw away protective restrictions. The British, having no choice, agreed to the smaller sum, and promised that after July 15, 1947, they would permit those who got British pounds in "current transactions" to exchange them for dollars...
...Numbers. American Telephone and Telegraph Co. will ask its stockholders to authorize the largest financing transaction in U.S. corporate history-a new issue of $354 million convertible debentures. With this sum, the funds raised by A.T. & T. for postwar expansion will reach a whopping $1,220 million...
From there until the weekend, Inquisitor Ferguson struggled with his bullheaded, shrewd, obstreperous witness. On his part, Planemaker Hughes put on a fancy performance in self-advancement, the sum of which was that, in effect, he had thought up many of the good planes the U.S. used in World War II-and the Japs had copied one for their Zero. Everybody welcomed the arrival of Saturday night. Some other Republican Congressmen still in Washington were beginning to get restive over the rowdy proceedings. Michigan's Senior Senator Arthur Vandenberg dropped in among the spectators on Saturday...
...routine story went out on the A.P. wire from Buenos Aires, where Peronistas are out to get rid of Argentina's two biggest dailies by annoying them to death (TIME, March 31). The sum of A.P.'s dispatch was that the Government had sued to collect multimillion-dollar duties on newsprint that oppositionist La Prensa and La Nación had imported over the last nine years. (By law, newsprint for "cultural publications" is duty-free.) In Bogotá, Colombia, El Tiempo picked up the dispatch and ran a thundering editorial calling on the press of the hemisphere...