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Word: sums (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...they do when nervous, Nazis grew sarcastic. "What a sum!" commented Deutscher Dienst on a $100,000 relief installment from the U. S. "Not even a whole airplane; just the left wing of a bomber...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: One War for Two | 1/15/1940 | See Source »

...President's message. No. 1 If was the fact that no forecast of business conditions 18 months ahead-let alone of Treasury revenues therefrom-is worth printing on slick paper. No. 2 If was that the Author had neglected to write in any lump sum for parity payments to the farmer, and this year every legislator, to a man, is the farmer's friend...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FISCAL: Romance v. Realism | 1/15/1940 | See Source »

...According to union figures, this sum included $25,000 for a new house, $12,000 to furnish it, $1,700 to keep up the garden, $16,000 to pay Mr. Petrillo's income tax, $25,000 for an armored limousine and bodyguards. Discovering that nobody cared to shoot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Caesar's Fun | 1/8/1940 | See Source »

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