Word: sums
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...financing the benefits. They proposed to set up a five-man Board of Credit Commissioners to estimate the value of all the "assets" of the province (mountains, rivers, forests, etc.), developed or undeveloped. All this blue-sky calculation would add up, Premier Manning and friends reckoned, to the grand sum of $231 billion. To this figure they proposed to add the "capitalized productive capacity" of the 800,000 people of the province...
Department of Science. At present Vannevar Bush is the nearest thing to a U.S. Secretary of Science. He is chairman of the JRDB (Joint Research and Development Board), which has power over the billion dollars or so a year which the armed services are spending on research. This enormous sum has already become the dominant factor in U.S. science...
...explanatory. Before the war, the University used the Boston Skating Club rink at $35.00 an hour. During the war, with University support largely lacking, the Skating Club was forced to rely entirely on the public, and apparently it did very well. The rate is now $85.00 an hour, a sum which Mr. Bingham deems prohibitive, to say the least...
...sum total impression of "Radditudes" is a good one. Better non-fletion and less pretentious poetry should be "musts" for the next edition. And more cuts and cartoons could be added to break up the monotony of printed lines. When these improvements are added to the fine short story nucleus apparent in its pages, "Radditudes" will take its place as a publication that has something to say and deserves to be read by all members of the University...
...years immediately following graduation, results in moral depression and defeatism, culminating in a "What the hell, why bother about anything" attitude. This policy is not unreasonable, but it should be re-examined in the light of the present situation. The veteran who needs help does not require a large sum. He comes to college with what amounts to an $1100 scholarship; another three or four hundred dollars per school year is all that he needs to meet his minimum expenses. Since most veterans will finish college in well under four years, the total of necessary loans does not exceed...