Word: summing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...reached a point where Wilson could have done nothing else without seriously embarrassing the Eisenhower Administration. Two factors built up the crisis: 1) the failure of Ike's advisers to foresee the difficulty, and 2) misleading reports of what Wilson told the Senate Armed Services Committee. The sum of the reports that leaked from the committee's executive session was a very bad press for Wilson. Column after column of type left the impression that he was being arrogant, that he didn't understand how there could be a conflict of interests between private business and Government...
...American Royal Show in Kansas City. Last week his owner, C. A. Smith of West Virginia's Hillcrest Farms, sold a half interest in Larry Domino to E. C. McCormick, an Ohio insurance executive and owner of McCormick Hereford Farms in Medina. The price: $105,000, the largest sum ever paid for half a bull...
Thanks to the sale's Hollywood-like showmanship, prices soared to unheard-of highs; Harry Warner paid $200,000 for Stepfather and $135,000 for Honeymoon. In that and four subsequent sales, the Mayer horses were sold for $4,500,000, the biggest sum ever racked up by Finney' as announcer (i.e., sale manager) for New York's Fasig-Tipton...
...difficult to sum up the true character of the museum mentor until I read his comment: "The museum is one of the few places where the population can escape from the impositions of an age starved for spiritual values." Anyone who can express himself and his job so completely is deserving of the responsibility placed in his custody...
Spokesmen for the club also said they were assured, if the police were, that this man was not responsible for the other $70. They added they had no leads as to what might have happened to this sum...