Word: summing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Well does every Congressman know that to raise any substantial part of the vast sum which the President demands will probably mean: 1) a heavy sales tax; 2) a stiff increase in the rates on low and middle-bracket incomes; or 3) both. Viewing this grisly prospect in the perspective of next year's elections, Congressmen shuddered...
...swelling flow of U.S. war goods moving overseas pushed the value of U.S. exports in March to $930 million, the highest ever recorded in one month and more than triple the 1938 monthly aver age. Of this vast sum, Lend-Lease took $688 million. But imports, although double prewar 1938, were valued at only $243 million. This prodigious unbalance in U.S. foreign trade was a grisly index of the dreadful cost of war in terms of real wealth...
High scorer for the contest was Guard Wean who accumulated the sum of seven points for Platoon Eight. He was closely followed by Center Turley with five tallies to his credit. Defensively, Duchene starred for the winners while Center Taylor looked god on the losers' side...
...member paper. The bylaws provide that an applicant can get A.P. service only by being elected by a majority vote of A.P. members. And even if he is elected -which is unlikely in most cases -he must still pay the already-established A.P. paper in his city a whopping sum (over $300,000 in Chicago), and must further share with his rival any exclusive news or photo services he possesses...
Place, formerly manager of the football team, and Health, president of the Student Council and member of the Varsity baseball team, will solicit the sum which each class traditionally gives to Harvard College on the 25th anniversary graduation...