Word: summing
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Charles A. Thomas, president of Monsanto Chemical Co., which has already spent $250,000 investigating commercial uses of atomic energy, estimates that it would cost $60 million to build a 125,000-kw. atomic power plant (about one-tenth of the power used by greater Boston). Of this sum, $44 million would be the cost of a reactor for plutonium production and could come from the Government; the rest would be for the heat-transfer units, turbines, etc. for the power plant, and might come from private industry...
...flash. "A college president," he says, "has two choices. One is to lean toward being a public figure. I decided to throw my weight toward Princeton." Dodds has built slowly and well on foundations that he never wanted to alter. Unlike Mover Conant or Shaker Hutchins, he can sum up his career so far with a refreshingly unorthodox boast: that in its basic philosophy, Princeton "has not changed in the least in the last 20 years...
...Hans Klose . . . has been inconsiderate enough to ask the British for the staggering sum of $14,286 damages for his false arrest [TIME, June 1], and from a hard-pressed nation which spent $5,500,000 to crown its Queen...
...evoke the same fever. Rather the coronation resembles what would happen if Washington, Lincoln and Jefferson were to come alive, and at an appointed hour drive down Fifth Avenue before the massed memberships of the DAR, SAR and American Legion. But America, lacking a living human being to sum up its history, can only grope at understanding what the Coronation means to the Commonwealth...
...Mutual Security program: ¶ Europe will still be the No. 1 beneficiary, but its proportion (more than $3 billion) of the whole MSA pie will be cut from about 75% to 55%. ¶ Asia will get about 30%, a larger share (about $1.7 billion) than ever before. This sum includes $400 million for Indo-China. representing about 40% of the cost of the Indo-Chinese war to France (although the French, cut down in Europe and bolstered in Indo-China, expect to come out with a lower MSA total than they got last year). ¶ Some...