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Word: sums (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...largest gift "for immediate use" to the University since the Carnegie Corporation gave $125,000 to the Russian Research Center last summer, it brings to $149,983.48 the sum donated by the society in the last six months...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: $100,00 Given To Cancer Study | 11/29/1949 | See Source »

This brings the year's contribution total to approximately $400,000 and still leaves a vast difference between the present total and the sum necessary to match the Rockefeller donation. The donation of $5,000,000 given to the Business School by John D. Rockefeller Jr. last spring was made under the condition that a sum equal to it would be raised by July...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Business School Receives $50,000 From Grant Fund | 11/15/1949 | See Source »

...every U.S. manufacturer is cudgeling his brain−and the brains of designers−to make his product work better, feel better, look better and sell better than those of his rivals. This year U.S. business will spend some $500 million improving the way its products look. Of that sum, Raymond Loewy Associates expects to collect $3,000,000, the biggest gross ever. And Loewy expects that his personal income, which has averaged $200,000 for the past five years, will be boosted also...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MODERN LIVING: Up from the Egg | 10/31/1949 | See Source »

...Association, presided over by Joseph P. Spang, Jr. '15, donated the sum to the band this summer when they were seeking funds to travel to Stanford for the football opener. When last minute difficulties forced the band to cancel their trip, the Association permitted them to keep their contribution, a portion of which had already been spent for organizational expenses...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Band Makes Surprise Visit to Boston Party | 10/28/1949 | See Source »

Last week Mrs. Cohen was able to sum up her experience: "What a headache being lucky can be!" Soon after the first night's excitement, the Cohens learned what it was like to be continually annoyed and worried. After a tractor was delivered at the apartment, they took steps to head off a deluge of heating units, thousands of cans of food, lawnmowers, furniture for bedroom and living room...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: The Winners | 10/24/1949 | See Source »

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