Word: summing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...total was 8,800. Production measured on a weight basis (a better gauge of growth) swelled more incredibly in 1943 than in 1942. To the Allies the U.S. has already shipped 26,900 planes; 7,000 have gone to the U.S.S.R. alone. The rest, less losses, are the present sum of U.S. air power; 145,000 planes are scheduled for production in the next 15 months. Need for replacements will use up much of this new strength. In one theater a typical Flying Fortress is in operation only 231 days, will fly 21 combat missions...
...choice of 1) Option A, under which the face value of the bonds remains the same, but interest is slashed in half or more, 2) Option B, under which the value of the issues is cut from 20% to 50% and interest is reduced. But bondholders get a lump sum up to 17% of the bonds' value...
...later transferred to a North Central India command. . . . There, our troops were quartered in British-built barracks. The officers lived in grand style in hotels for the ridiculous sum of 52 rupees a month...
Next day, at 5:30 p.m., a spokesman for Allied Headquarters in Algiers issued to appalled newspapermen a masterpiece of "public relations" technique: "General Patton has never been reprimanded at any time by General Eisenhower." Every single word of the denial was true. The sum total was not. In Army language, a reprimand is "an official rebuke administered as a punishment," following strictly defined rules of disciplinary procedure.-To those millions of Americans whose English is not false-bottomed, the denial could mean only that Patton was beyond reproach...
...most U.S. corporations have adopted this cautious view-at least toward their stockholders. According to a New York Stock Exchange study of the nine-month dividend records of 842 listed stocks, 135 paid more than last year, 369 paid the same, 145 paid less (or nothing at all). The sum total of all dividend payments was only .5% higher...