Word: summing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...working on the fantastic $1,20,000 Brink's stick-up. The head of the Criminal Investigation Bureau summoned reporters into his office, unhappily broke the fact that there was no news. The police were stymied. But he did have a parting word: the psychological effect of such a sum of money on the robbers would be too great on at least one of them. "Some day if his mind doesn't crack he may walk in here and tell me the truth, because whatever the payoff, he knows now it wasn't worth...
Gifts last year ranged the gamut from $1 to over a million and a half. In 1959 and '51 without explanation a Los Angelan, Myron J. Koobat, sent $1.00 to the an, Myron J. Koobat, sent $1.00 to the College and this sum is duly recorded under "gifts for immediate use." So far his 1952 contribution has not arrived...
...system was simple: he pocketed cash a depositor pushed across the counter-usually $25 and never more than $100. He credited the sum to the depositor's account, then extracted ledger cards of other depositors. These he shifted around, always keeping out deposit cards equivalent to his total embezzlement to that date. Thus the ledgers always balanced, and the defrauded depositors never discovered the thefts. In 14 years George took $7,541 without a soul's being the wiser, although there were about 150 bank examinations during the period...
...total received this year, a sum of $421,131.79 was capital to be added to endowment and a total of $2,384,008.11 was for current...
With a few straggling donations still coming in, Sapers said undergraduates contributed $18,000 of the drive's $22,000 goal... This is the largest sum collected since the Drive split with the Council in 1950 and quit soliciting at Registration...