Word: sums
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...boating and help win the War" is the slogan that might well sum up the official government attitude toward college yachting. Navy and Coast Guard officers everywhere are urging yacht clubs to teach all seamanship possible to ablebodied young men and thus provide a reservior of trained commisioned officers and enlisted ratings for coastal and harbor patroling, and even for offsore service in the nation's war effort...
This analysis, like most other inclusive theories, has serious defects. It is possible to ascribe mass behavior in society to individual factors only if that society is the sum of its individual members and nothing more. That thesis has been asserted many times, but it has not as yet gained general acceptance. There seems always to be "something else." Moving from one plane, that of the individual, to another, that of society, with the same theoretical methods is a risky transition at best, but the danger has not deterred Soule in his efforts...
...biggest interest disbursements in U.S. railroad history was announced last week by Baltimore & Ohio Railroad: $22,073,408. The sum represented six months' to three years' back interest on nine bond issues owned by some 70,000 B. & O. bondholders. B. & O. was able to fork out the cash because of last year's near-record traffic, which produced $51,442,000 of revenues available for interest...
...assistance, the money makes a great psychological difference. Few of the 340 men now working on NYA at Harvard would be forced to leave College if it were abandoned. Many of them, however, are given a valuable sense of certainty by signing a contract which assures them a certain sum for the year. Take that contract away, and they go back to a week-by-week financial existence. The value of certitude in such matters is enormous, and there is no way of estimating the total effect if it were removed...
...cost something like $25,000 to kill one soldier during the last war. With the increasing mechanization of warfare, the price has risen considerably, and every day some 10,000 men are killed in battle. The United States has appropriated a sum equal to half its national income, in order to meet this cost. And the United States has to get its money from...