Word: summing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Hear the sum of the whole matter-every art possessed by man comes from Prometheus...
...gift of $90,000 from Kidder, Peabody & Co. was made in memory of their late partner, Edwin Sibley Webster, Jr. An additional $195,000 has been given anonymously, in two gifts, for the athletic endowment. These gifts have been added to the previously existing sum of $700,000. The Program is seeking to add $2,000,000 to the H.A.A. endowment...
...wrote: "My reason can be shortly stated . . . The government itself must, in my view, accept the same measure of financial discipline as it seeks to impose on others." No less curtly, Macmillan replied: "You say that the [budget] for the next year must be the exact equivalent of the sum spent this year. The rigid application of this formula would do more harm than good . . . This is not a matter of popularity . . . This is a matter of good judgment ... I particularly regret that you should think it necessary to take this step when the difference between you and the rest...
Trade & Tariffs. U.S. purchases from Latin America poured $4 billion into the area last year†-a sum half again as much as U.S. economic assistance funds for the whole world. But simply because the trade is so large and so vital, minor changes in U.S. tariffs can affect it drastically. The worst-hurt nation currently is Uruguay. Since 1951 U.S. imports from Uruguay have fallen from $102 million a year to about $18 million, mostly because Western sheep raisers in the U.S. got a prohibitive tariff put on Uruguayan wool. Now the Russians, smoothly operating through Dutch importers, have...
...Ordered Budget Director Percival Brundage to release a total of $177 million in appropriations previously frozen by the White House for commitment under the omnibus housing act of 1957. The act provided a total of $1,740,000,000 for various home-building programs, a sum that President Eisenhower declared high at the time. With recession causing concern (TIME, Dec. 30), the decision was made to pump the money into the economy. Biggest item: $107 million to help pay for mortgages on armed forces family housing...