Word: summing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Into the offices of Detroit's United Foundation, a representative of the Ford Motor Co. brings its share: $550,000. From nearly all of Ford's 87,700 employees in metropolitan Detroit comes another sum: $1,600,000. The telling fact: in 1956, as in 1955, Detroit's big corporations contributed about 31% of the city's United Foundation total of $16,201,540; yet, the employees in Detroit's industries equaled their 1955 percentage (57.6%), despite unemployment in the automotive business...
...This sum is approximately equal to the amount needed by Harvard as announced by President Pusey last month. Yale had received about five and a half million dollars through last June, which brought their receipts over the past six years to within two million dollars of an original goal of $78 million...
...labor organization) and the Zionist Organization of America raise about $15 million a year for specialized Israeli projects, e.g., schools, hospitals, youth groups. And beyond all charitable activity, the Bonds for Israel drive (the income from its 4% bonds is subject to taxation) has raised since 1951 the staggering sum of $275 million. The total breakdown: $800,000 worth of bonds sold every week. These bonds, say Bonds for Israel officials, are popular with gentiles as well as with Jews because of Israel's promising growth potential...
...band issue. It seems that the University controls the purse strings for all class dances, and that it has set an unofficial limit of around $2000 to be spent on a band. Unfortunately, the students often want to hire a big name band, which usually requires a larger sum of money. But the University feels that a big weekend doesn't necessitate a big name band, Robert Minnerly, chairman of the 1956 spring weekend, explained. "They fear the band would send an inferior group of players for an exorbitant sum," Minnerly added. "They're afraid the students will get gypped...
...wing to be constructed adjacent to the main building at 55 Shattuck Street. It would have seven floors and would, hopefully, provide the necessary housing for the School's various activities. However, the construction, equipping and maintenance of such a building would cost approximately four million dollars, a sum not easily come by, especially in such a small graduate school (the School of Public Health has only about 160 students...