Word: summing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Solicitors will contact every resident student during the Drive, Dorsen noted. Commuters will receive letters requesting them to mail in contributions. A "very small sum" was collected from nonresidents last year, he said, "but we hope to get a much better response this time...
Before 1947, the House conducted its own fund-raising appeal. Cooperating with the Student Council's plan to have one drive for all charities, it gave up its campaign in 1948. In return the Council made in informal guarantee to "allot to PBH. . . the sum the Council considers necessary to aid in its operation, provided that PBH shall not conduct an individual drive for funds...
...with a lot of foreigners on Oct. 24, he will instead get a jump on One-Worlders by proclaiming Oct. 23 as United States Day. What's more, cried terrible-tempered Governor Lee, he will salt away every penny he owes in federal income tax on what ever sum he makes over his governor's salary-until if and when the U.S. Supreme Court orders him to unhand it. Raged J. Bracken Lee: "It is unconstitutional for this nation to tax its citizens for the support of foreign nations...
...could write thousands of words and not sum up the American way of life as well as the Sears catalogue does. There it is-the American way of life; our clothes, appliances, all in one convenient book." The U.S. Information Agency agrees with this boast by Edward Hardiman, foreign-sales representative of Sears, Roebuck & Co., and has sent 3,500 copies of Sears's 1,444-page fall and winter catalogue to its 225 overseas posts as an official weapon of anti-Communist propaganda...
...lease-purchase arrangement, the Government gets a private contractor to pay for the building, keep title to it. The Government moves in, pays the contractor a fixed yearly sum, also reimburses him for local taxes, insurance and other costs. At the end of the lease period (maximum: 25 years), when the contractor's cost is amortized and his profit made, title to the building goes to the Government. Advantages of the lease-purchase device are that it keeps a steady flow of new buildings coming into the federal system, smooths out peaks and valleys in federal spending caused...