Word: summing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Little information is available on the actual gifts that made up most of the $5,000,000 raised in 12 months since Rockefeller made his surprise offer last June to contribute $5,000,000 to the school if it could match that sum by July...
...heard a prediction that sent their voltage up. In the next 20 years, estimated Elmer Lindseth, outgoing institute president,* the growing U.S. economy will require three times as much electric power as the industry's present capacity. "That," said Lindseth, "will mean raising $30 billion of capital . . . [a sum] equal to the total investment today in the nation's iron and steel, automotive, petroleum and coal industries...
...kinks in the Dickinson legend. After years of persuasion, Harvard had finally convinced Alfred Leete Hampson, longtime friend of Emily's niece, and heir to Emily's letters and manuscripts, that he should part with them. Manhattan Bibliophile Gilbert Holland Montague had put up "a very substantial sum," turned the collection over to Harvard's Houghton Library for a special Emily Dickinson room...
Purchased for an undisclosed sum from Alfred Leete Hampson, the papers have been kept by the poet's family in Amherst since her death in 1886. Along with the poems, the collection contains letters by and to Miss Dickinson, many of her books and possessions, and family papers accumulated since the arrival of the first Dickinson in the United States...
...French troops, about half of the Fourth Republic's army, and thereby weakened the contribution France might make to Western Europe's defense. In lives, the Indo-China war has cost the French 50,000 casualties. In money, it has cost $2 billion-just about the sum of ECAid to France...