Word: summing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...largest sum-$93 million-will be spent to mark existing community shelters in public buildings, underground garages, subway systems and the like. By late 1962, 34 million shelter spaces will be marked out and ready. Another $58.8 million will go for stocking a minimum supply of water and wheat wafers, first-aid kits, and tools for debris removal. Another $10 million is earmarked for modifying existing shelters; by adding forced draft ventilators, many can be improved to take care of more people. To get civilians under cover in time, $10 million will be spent developing the acronymously named NEAR (National...
...Corps will have built up from 177,000 to 190,000 men, including three air wings to back up its foot sloggers with close tactical support. In addition, the Corps will get another $67 million for hardware, increasing its procurement allowance to $266 million-nearly double the sum allowed in Eisenhower's budget. The Marines will spend heavily for communications gear, ammunition and 106 mm. recoilless rifles, which can be fired in battle from small, maneuverable vehicles...
Within days Diem was bound for Saigon with France's sanction to form a Cabinet. It would be no easy task. Diem had been out of the country for four years, had become a virtual unknown among the mass of his countrymen. Perhaps the sum total of his national support was at Saigon's airport when he stepped off the plane: five hundred personal friends, Catholic priests, village dignitaries and former colleagues in the old French colonial government...
...waked and has begun to treat America with a half-dozen bright, new lollipops: literate, exciting journals of opinion. The older liberal publications, such as the New Republic and the Reporter, still engender consistent flashes of excellence; a single dispatch of Douglass Cater is worth more than the sum of Advance's recent efforts. Even the conscience of the primitive right, the National Review exudes professional slickness. Surely liberal Republicanism deserves as much. It is a creed that puzzles me, but it appeals to many, and probably it is good politics. As explicated in Advance it is certainly not good...
...better-equipped Army, finally quit in frustration, and poured his theories into an outspoken book he called The Uncertain Trumpet. As a sort of casual afterthought, Taylor admitted in his book that his program would call for a budget of from $50 billion to $55 billion a year, a sum that invoked scoffing laughter in Congress. But the book caught the eye of Senator Kennedy, who contributed a blurb for the publisher: "This volume is characterized by an unmistakable honesty, clarity of judgment, and a genuine sense of urgency...