Word: summing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Aldrich was up to tricks, they did not work. The amendment passed the Senate unanimously, passed the House 318 to 14, and was soon ratified by the legislatures. John D. Rockefeller was one of the few dissenters. Said he: "When a man has accumulated a sum of money within the law, that is to say, in the legally correct way, the people no longer have any right to share in the earnings resulting from the accumulation...
Clearly, the University is making a mistake. It has invested a large sum of money, has seen that investment almost realized, but now has decided to forget about the whole thing...
...your Feb. 4 story concerning the attitude of Pakistan over our piddling offer of $8 to $12 million in Point Four aid [an official source from Karachi said they were "insulted"]. TIME, and the American public, should be insulted that we have offered Pakistan this paltry sum when we are willing to [pour] $50 million down the drain in India (because Nehru plays footie with Mao and Joe), and another $24 million to Mossadegh's clique, who are playing footie with each other, waiting for their tanker to come in ... India, land of muddy rivers and muddy liberalism...
...year-old store announced that it will close down, except for one small branch. The 1,400 employees will not be left stranded. Though the management estimates it owes only $98,000 in severance pay, it guaranteed employes at least $633,000 from the liquidation sale, expects that the sum may run as high...
...decision since the freeze. It found that Hedin's bricklayers got $3 an hour for working on a Veterans Administration hospital when WSB regulations allowed only $2.75. The commission ruled that Hedin must pay federal income taxes on the $40,000, and ordered the VA to deduct the sum from its contract with Hedin. WSB is investigating 267 other companies in New York and New Jersey suspected of paying wages above the legal ceiling...