Word: sums
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...giant whose service contracts cover all U. S. railroads. Since 1900 Pullman and its subsidiaries have manufactured all U. S. sleeping cars except 15. It also collects all revenues from sleeping and parlor car ticket sales. If any car fails to gross a net sum (normally $9,000 yearly) to cover its share of Pullman expenses (porters, linens, maintenance, etc.) and what Pullman calls a fair return, Pullman keeps the car's entire sleeping ticket revenue. If the car earns more than its set fee, Pullman splits (usually 50-50) the excess with the railroads at year...
...democracy than anything Mexico ever had. There was the usual Government-sponsored, in-the-bag candidate. But there were also three other candidates, and one of them, though he had not a paisano's prayer of winning, nevertheless was conceded a chance to pile up a whopping sum of honest votes. In Mexico that was something. The candidates...
...attempt to bring two radio stations to heel, he cracked the whip over the three major networks. The stations were St. Paul's KSTP (NBC affiliate), Richmond's WRVA (CBS). Each was embroiled in a local musicians' strike, because it declined to pay a minimum yearly sum, or guarantee a minimum number of jobs, to local musicians, whether needed...
...Berlin. Major George Fielding Eliot calls it a "masterly exposition." Colonel Foertsch's doctrine calls for open-mindedness and adaptability in the individual officer; his discussion of modern land tactics (including the rationale of tank attacks, smoke screens, plunging fire, etc.) makes a useful addition to the sum of human knowledge...
Meanwhile Argentina went ahead on its own. Argentine Congressional committees studied a 1,000,000,000-peso (about $220,000,000) defense budget, increasing by 60% the sum asked only two days before and establishing a South American record...