Word: sums
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sending me for "pointing out minor inaccuracies" in your story of Jan. 15, it will be returned to you by registered mail when received. I've never considered myself very bright, but I just cannot be so dumb as to accept this particular sum from TIME...
...money to Mrs. Bolton will be $10,000 tendered her by an act of Congress, "to supply urgent deficiencies." Congress appropriated a like sum to each of six other widows of Congressmen, including Mrs. William E. Borah (see p. 38). The Act, passed by both Houses last week, awaited the signature of the President. Like her husband, whose 1938 campaign expenditures came to $120.94, Mrs. Bolton refuses to spend any more to get elected than the price of an evening...
...bill introduced in Congress last winter called for an annual public-health expenditure of $80,000,000; the substitute plan, which the President sent as a birthday message to Congress, slashed the total to $10,000,000. This sum, said the President, would build 50 small hospitals for poor communities throughout the U. S. which need "the most elementary" health services. "Title to these institutions," he continued, "should be held by the Federal Government, but operation should be a local financial responsibility. It is an experiment...
Died. Edward Stephen Harkness, 66. famed but retiring charitarian, who spent his life giving away the fortunes he inherited from his father (Standard Oil), his mother, a brother; of intestinal influenza and complications; in Manhattan. Edward Harkness' secret was the total of his gifts; the known sum exceeded $100,000,000. His beneficiaries included Yale (his alma mater) and Harvard, where his millions provided U. S. versions of the Oxford college system; Columbia (a library, medical funds); Phillips Exeter Academy and other preparatory schools; the Commonwealth Fund (upwards of $50,000,000 for rural hospitals, medical research, education...
...contract, the company will: 1) equip its factory to turn out 100,000 masks a month (300,000 on a three-shift, 24-hour basis); 2) make 10,000 masks during 1940; 3) at year's end turn over equipment and gas masks to the Army for the sum of $341,714. By Aug. 1 Johnson & Johnson expected the first masks to come rolling off the assembly line...