Word: summing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Director Stevens has put it together, Shane adds up to something more than the sum of its individual parts, it almost rises above its stock material to become a sort of celluloid symphony of six-shooters and the wide open spaces...
...Louis' German-language Westliche Post. Last week, with the number of German readers still dwindling, Victor F. Ridder, 67, son of Herman Ridder, announced that he was selling the Staats-Zeitung und Herald (circ. 22,462), now the largest German-language daily in the U.S., for an undisclosed sum. The new owners: August Steuer, a retired New York restaurateur, and Erwin Single, business manager of the Ridder Journal of Commerce...
...existence, he suggested, is determined "by lower echelons, public and private ... the assistant chiefs of bureau and the secretaries of corporations . . . These men are probably honest and competent, but not for directing the destinies of the country ... It is neither their role nor their mandate. The sum of all these specialized interests does not constitute a community of interests . . . One after the other, the problems that we have to resolve, the choices which must be made, are abandoned to the events . The events take charge...
...nation's 1,225,000 railroad workers last week got a pay boost of 4? an hour retroactive to Dec. 1, 1952. Though it will cost the railroads about $120 million a year, it was the reason for the raise more than the sum involved that riled their tempers. The reason: increased "productivity" by the rail workers, the first such pay award ever made to them on Government authority...
...Three, 78-year-old Prime Minister Winston Churchill, had offered his regrets "at the news of Mr. Stalin's ill health," but refused to comment on Stalin's death in a silence more eloquent than even his oratory. Other Britons felt the need to sum up. "A great man but not a good man," said Labor's-Herbert Morrison. "The world is a healthier but not a safer place," said London's Economist...