Word: summing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...propose to establish the truth of all our assertions [in the book]." Last week Columnist Mortimer and the estate of Editor Lait, who died last year, gave up the pretense of defending the book. To settle the libel suit, Lait's estate and Mortimer paid a "substantial" sum of money to the store, footed the bill for newspaper ads abjectly admitting: "In retrospect and on more careful examination, these statements, we are now convinced, are untrue and were made without proof or credible evidence...
Home by Christmas. When DuBridge and his tiny band of scientists first arrived in Cambridge, Mass, in November, they felt certain they would all be home by Christmas. At an early budget conference in Washington, someone suggested the sum of $25,000, and Physicist Ernest O. Lawrence thought he was being hopelessly daring when he suggested that it be doubled. The next month, the sum was doubled again, and the next, again. Finally, Washington received a strange message from Cambridge: "Mary Baker Eddy with one eye." Translation: the scientists had picked up the dome of the Christian...
...G.A.W., the union wants the auto companies to put 4% of the payroll in a base year (probably 1953, since it was the industry's highest employment period) into a reserve fund for five years, or as long as it takes to pile up a sum equal to 20% of the payroll. When the 20% total is reached, payments would stop, would not be resumed until after the fund is depleted by money drawn out to pay laid-off workers. No matter which base year is chosen, G.A.W. would cost the companies a maximum of 8% of their yearly...
Over the summer, the committee will consider ways to raise approximately $3,000 per year, a sum which the Indian students hope to equal in order to support the project. The program will be a non-governmental attempt to achieve a closer relationship with Indian students, according to the four members of a planning committee which investigated the idea and called Wednesday's meeting...
...however. A public lottery ordered by the General Court of Massachusetts served that purpose. Such petty gambling was very much in vogue in the 1800's, and the Holworthy lottery was so popular that all tickets were sold weeks in advance of the drawing. The public produced the impressive sum of $29,000 for their chances; slightly over $24,000 found its way into the construction of Holworthy...