Word: summing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...that the end. This week the President made ready to ask Congress for a whopping big addition to the funds authorized for Britain and China under the Lend-Lease Act. It was hinted that the sum requested might come to as much as $7,000,000,000. In far-off Argentina the Buenos Aires Standard looked on in awe, headlined a story about the President's appropriations: "Oliver Twist of the West," after Dickens' hungry boy who wanted more treacle...
...like the saloons, where I can work as long as I want to and lay off when I want to. ∙∙ Matinee Idol Francis Lederer married Marion Irvine four days after his exwife, Marge, brought suit for $12,822.23. She said he signed a promissory note for that sum the day she sued for divorce last December. ∙∙ Brooklyn-born Sigrid Gurie (Algiers, Marco Polo) applied for U.S. citizenship, but not as a gag. The cinemactress Sam Goldwyn acclaimed as a genuine Scandinavian importation (like Garbo) had lost her citizenship when her parents took her back to their...
...further reason for Mr. Field's feelings: "PM's losses of approximately $1,000,000 a year at the present rate don't amount to that much to Field, Ingersoll pointed out, inasmuch as about $850,000 of that sum would be spent for taxes anyway...
...Jack Towers and his whole organization. For naval aviation in fiscal 1938, Congress appropriated $51,500,000; two years later, $111,459,000. Jack Towers now has the job of spending $1,578,000,000. Stacked against total naval appropriations and authorizations ($13,100,000,000), even that sum might seem small to citizens imbued with awe of the Luftwaffe. Jack Towers says that he considers it not only a fair proportion of the total, but even more than the naval air service might reasonably have expected...
...have so great a share of the national income as other groups, but adding that now they would receive 85% parity loans, plus parity payments, plus soil-conservation payments in cash. He did stipulate, as his understanding of the bill's "obscurity," that "under no circumstances should the sum of these three exceed parity." No matter what the President might now say or do, Congressmen had received a clear direction: the lid was off. Anything goes. Franklin Roosevelt had intoned the benediction over economy's grave...