Word: sums
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...broadcast were twice as successful as grade-school graduates in detecting that what they heard was fiction. But generally, Dr. Cantril's researchers found, critical ability was affected by other factors tending to create susceptibility. Most significant of these were universal insecurity, worries, phobias, fatalism, war fear. To sum up, Dr. Cantril quoted the late Heywood Broun: "Jitters have come to roost...
...state of mind given him by Chief of Italian Police Arturo Bocchini. Italy's Himmler-an efficient, honest, courageous, unpublicized bustler who hangs a sign over his desk which says: "Please make it snappy"-daily reported the findings of his intricate wiretapping, eavesdropping machine, and the sum of the findings was not to Il Duce's taste: Italians want peace...
...waters, sometimes has unexpected returns. When Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera started its current campaign to raise $1,000,000, it hoped for widespread giving, naturally expected most from Manhattan's operagoers. Last week the fund's contributions had reached $677,344. Almost a third of this sum had trickled in from small contributors who knew the Met only from its Saturday afternoon broadcasts...
...Deferred Spending." Not chicken feed but ?400 millions yearly is the sum famed British Economist John Maynard Keynes figures His Majesty's Government could obtain by what he now calls "Deferred Spending." This is an improved, revised version of the famed Keynes Plan (TIME, Nov. 27) which today is just about the biggest topic of behind-the-scenes fiscal gossip in Britain...
What made the loan big was not the sum-the same as the Finnish loan-nor Chinese needs for the road-builders, trucks and other U. S. goods (exclusive of implements of war) which China will buy with it. What made it big was the tremendous leverage that U. S. currency exerts in terms of Far Eastern money, the tremendous boost that 20,000,000 hard U. S. dollars (worth $140,000,000 soft Chinese) give to the Chinese economic system, which for four years has been besieged in a currency war almost as economically devastating as the Japanese invasion...