Word: summing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Despite the leveling off, U.S. businessmen will keep building for future markets without letup. Merely to keep pace, industry will lay out a record sum for new plants and equipment in 1956. The forecast: $33 billion, $5 billion more than in 1955. Example: the Southern Co., which controls utility companies in four Southeastern states, will pour $220 million into 88 new power projects...
Since both hormones and aspirin have proved effective remedies for arthritis, super-aspirin backers claim that the two together exert a synergistic effect on patients, i.e., produce greater benefit than the sum of each used separately. But 1) the evidence for super-aspirin's synergistic effect is questionable; 2) aspirin can be taken safely by almost any patient, while hormones are suitable only for some patients. Cortisone, ACTH, prednisone and other hormones sometimes produce such undesirable side effects as peptic ulcers, edema, mental disturbances and high blood pressure...
...they do name a flat sum, then I will certainly pass the information along to the owners," he added, "but so far I have nothing definite enough to transmit." He declined to reveal his clients' names...
...scholarship money available for graduate students, it is not $950,000, but only a little more than a third of this sum...
...biggest price ever paid for a newspaper-$18,642,000-Publisher S. I. (for Samuel Irving) Newhouse last week bought the Birmingham News, one of the South's leading dailies. The sum brought to $33 million the amount spent in the last five years alone for newspapers by the small (5 ft. 3 in.), publicity-shy New Yorker. Like his last two buys, the Portland Oregonian and the St. Louis Globe-Democrat (TIME, April 4), the purchase of the News put Newhouse into a new region of the U.S. It also put him right behind the Hearst and Scripps...