Word: sums
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...That sum might soon be sundae-money to Vic Damone. Like Crooners Sinatra, Perry Como and the late Russ Columbo, Vic is of Italian descent-and he managed to be born & bred in Brooklyn. He has shrewd management and the shyest little catty-cornered grin that ever melted the lipstick off a teenager. He also has a full, lyrical baritone, trimmed with a sense of phrase that Sinatra might envy if it were not so much like his own. Says Vic: "I try to tell a story. I never sing a song the same way twice...
...thousands. From New York's 251-acre Bronx Zoo to San Diego's magnificently landscaped Balboa Park, they will wander along the tree-shaded walks, peering into cages, gawking over moats, throwing peanuts to the elephants and popcorn to the bears, lolling, sweating, drinking, eating-enjoying, in sum, what is one of the most universal of summer pastimes...
...Strasbourg, French Communists heard Communist Deputy André Marty deplore the big sum the French Government planned to spend on the Sixth World Scout Jamboree (30,000 Boy Scouts are scheduled to encamp on the meadows at Moisson, northwest of Paris, in mid-August). The $956,000 allocated for the meeting, said Marty, could better be spent for recreation centers. "Existentialists" with reactionary backing, he added, were trying to demoralize French youth...
...fantastic finance of invasion currency, they were shocked to discover how the plans had miscarried. In the words of New Hampshire's Senator Styles Bridges, Morgenthau and Army and Cabinet co-planners had been so "naive, gullible or stupid" that the U.S. had been stuck for the whopping sum of $250 million in invasion marks...
U.M.T., said the commission, would provide a constantly replenished reservoir of trained manpower which a year after M-day could be mobilized into an effective force of around 7,500,000. Estimated cost of the program: $1,750,000,000 a year, less than the sum spent in one week in World War II, but quite a little item in any peacetime year...