Word: sums
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Origin of Specie. In Bath, Me., in 1857, Sailor Samuel Francis deposited $150 in a bank. Last week his heirs received the original sum plus interest...
...remarkable feature of the 1943 farm income was the sum the farmers managed to carry over to net profits. Despite soaring feed costs and fabulously high wages demanded by the few workers available, the U.S. farmers' net profits-out of a gross of $19 billion-are estimated at $12.5 billion. This 65% profit ratio scared the economists. With the farmers jingling so much inflationary money in their pockets, some economists fear another runaway land boom...
Henry Ford bought off for an undisclosed sum Swingster Tommy Dorsey's $130,000 contract for a 13-week Ford radio appearance. The aged patron of country fiddlers was reported to have objected to the way modern dance bands go to town...
Southern Governors milled all week in the lobbies of Washington's Mayflower and Statler Hotels. One Governor emerged from the smog of cigar smoke and politicking long enough to sum up: "We go into meetings to cuss him-but we just can't figure out any other answer than...
...Romains. His importance is rather his place in, and movement through, the cellular structure of contemporary society. Thus the story of Jerphanion coming to Paris was not his individual career, but his being, as one of the units, in the entity known as Paris, which was greater than the sum of its citizens...