Word: sums
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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President Coolidge recited those lines, written by Tennyson in 1842, to the first International Conference on Aeronautics at Washington last week. They were part of his résumé of aviation's 25-year accomplishments. Flyers and aeronautics authorities from 40 nations heard...
...newspapers, virtually every U.S. daily being included in the list; $3,000,000 will be spent for billboards, $1,200,000 for magazine space, $1,000,000 for window displays and other "dealer helps," and $600,000 for radio. The $12,300,000 appropriation is probably the largest sum ever invested in the advertising of one product. General Motors has spent about $17,000,000 in a year's advertising, but this amount included many cars, many agencies. The theme of the 1929 Lucky Strike campaign will presumably be the "Reach for a Lucky when you feel like eating...
Three hundred millions is about the total sum spent on enforcement since Prohibition became...
...University Library will receive $15,000 from the estate of the late Alice Longfellow according to the terms of her will which was filed in the Middlesex Probate Court yesterday. This sum which was one of many public bequests is to constitute a perpetual fund in honor of her father who held a professorship in modern languages in the University. The gift stipulates that this fund is to be known as the Henry Wads worth Longfellow Fund, the income of which is to be used in the purchase of library books in foreign languages to aid in the studies...
...Harvard Student Council Budget Committee reports that between 14 and $15,000 have been pledged to the Council fund, a sum greater than the amount pledged in any previous year. The Student Council Fund is a welfare federation of Harvard University, substituting a single collection for the many drives for money previously made. The Salvation Army and the Red Cross, as well as the several class funds, the Phillips Brooks House, and the Student Council, share in the money collected by the Council. The Budget Committee requests that the unpaid pledges made at the time of registration, and which...