Word: sums
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week John Bracken, national leader of the Tory Party which had walloped McNaughton at Grey North, raked the General from a new angle. He said that he had expected Defense Minister McNaughton to resign right after Grey North voted. In a 550-word statement, John Bracken said, in sum, that Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King should "replace the Defense Minister immediately...
...Nominal Sum. In Hartford, Conn., a $5 gambling fine was paid by a gamester named Cheatham Highley...
Assured of such handsome Federal aid, he reasoned, states which now cling to weekly benefits averaging as low as $7 a week could and would raise their scales. Lester estimated the total Federal cost of his program as about $1,250,000,000, a sum equal to what the Government now spends for five days...
...Southerner who writes a controversial novel (Strange Fruit) about the South. (What happens: "I was told I would lose my friends, that my family would be injured. . . . We're all well and happy." Friends showed "wonderful loyalty.") The Journal paid Miss Smith $100 for the article, the princeliest sum Editor Angus Perkerson has forked out in 32 years. Editor Perkerson hopes that in the new, freer-spending era his old nickname will be forgotten: because of his reluctance to spend the paper's money, he has long been called "Anguish...
...part, Odium will underwrite the sale of $25,000,000 worth of the new stock-i.e., Atlas will buy any stock, up to this sum, which Pan Am's stockholders do not. In return, Atlas gets an option at $18 on 500,000 shares, hopes the market price of Pan Am stock will rise before the end of December 1947. But Trippe, jealous of his tight control of Pan Am, has shrewdly specified that Atlas can hold permanently only 200,000 shares, must resell the rest. In all. Pan Am expects to need $100,000,000. But Trippe...