Word: summing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Lutherans got a start on other U. S. churches last spring when they raised $238,000 for purse-pinched Finnish and German missions. With their $238,000 almost spent, Lutherans this week sought another $500,000, a sum that must be upped to $775,000 if Sweden's Lutherans suffer the fate of their fellow Scandinavians. Episcopalians are after a preliminary $117,000. Baptists, Presbyterians, Methodists and many a smaller denomination are this month launching world relief appeals, part of which is for orphaned missions. None of this is to affect ordinary U. S. mission budgets...
...letter he dropped in his flight was found in the street. The police gave the press the text of it. The sinister politeness of the abductor's letter, which requested the sum of $100,000, made newspaper readers' flesh creep...
University employees began a campaign among themselves today to raise a sum of $5,000 or more to provide for a group of about ten English children to be quartered together as a group in a country house, under the supervision of an English mother and teacher...
...Duchess of Windsor, whom I had admired. She sent for Wayne Forrest, a famous hairdresser, to come to Nassau to do her hair. For this trip he had to fly and bring a permanent-wave dryer, packets of nail polish, rouge, powder, lipstick. All this would cost a large sum of money...
Making the prospective bases into effective outposts is no simple, inexpensive, overnight job. Secretary of the Navy Frank Knox last week said that the U. S. will begin immediately to spend $25,000,000 on its new bases. This sum can do no more than provide haven for ships (mostly destroyers, submarines for first-line patrol), initial facilities for long-range naval flying boats and both Army and Navy land-based planes. To build and fortify an advanced fleet base would cost at least $200,000,000 (the rock-bottom estimate for doing as much at Guam...