Word: summing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Started primarily for the purpose of equalizing competition among second-rate horses, claiming races (in which any starter may be bought for a sum fixed beforehand) have become a major medium of horse trading...
This state of affairs exists because the Massachusetts State League, which during the playing season provides the sum and substance of the teams practice, has thus far not come forth with a schedule. And when the schedule finally does emerge, Barnaby says, it will only include an "A" and a "B" league, as opposed to last year's five or six. Even the intercollegiate matches stand a good chance of being cancelled by an edict that prohibits minor sports teams from being transported by the University...
...Americans next year will have 40 billion dollars more to spend than there will be goods to buy. On top of this there is an 18 billion dollar excess this year. Price fixing can hold back the tide only so long. The handwriting is on the wall. This fabulous sum must be reduced or frozen soon...
...page 94 (TIME, Oct 5) is a sum of "The Strange Case of J. H. Phillips." By veiled implication, "Dr. Phillips" is puffed as a very competent surgeon who had the misfortune to run afoul of the license laws in California. It is likewise stated that the "A.M.A. Journal printed [his record] with reluctant admiration...
Total expenditures for this fiscal year 1943 will total the incredible sum of seventy-seven billion dollars, of which seventy billions is for military purposes alone. This spending is at the rate of 150 million dollars a day, a figure in keeping with a war program planned for a decisive victory. There are only two ways to pay for this ever-increasing bill of the American people: one is through borrowing, the other taxation. The greater the amount of war expenditures paid for now by taxation the stronger will be the future economic foundation of the country once...