Word: sums
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...quietly about its business of liberating itself from foreign economic and financial influence. Last week it used its blocked sterling credits to redeem the ?365,700 balance ($1,473,800) of 5% Transandine Railway bonds, raising the total bonds repatriated from London since Nov. 1, 1941 to the tidy sum of ?4,100,000 ($16,523,000). By coolly outbidding the U.S., Argentina bought up the bulk of Ecuadorian rubber to help keep its tire factories running. And at week's end Madrid announced a new accord with Argentina for: 1) exchange of Spain's industrial goods, machinery...
...sale of bonds are not yet completed, but the Liberal Union will probably conduct a university-wide campaign within the next month," Mark Schlefer '43, a member of the group, stated yesterday. Dances, speaking drives, and various other promotion stunts will feature the drive to raise an unspecified sum for the government, he added...
Lana Turner, who used to be satisfied with filling out sweaters, has now advanced to filling out the feminine half of co-starring teams. First she swivel-hipped around Clark Gable to turn in a goodly sum of shekels for M. G. M. in "Honky Tonk." Now she's back to play house and other things with Number 2 glamour-boy Robert Taylor in "Johnny Eager...
Some 88% of the 126,947 Japs in the U.S. live along the Pacific Coast. California alone has 33,569 alien Japanese, another 60,148 U.S. citizens of Japanese descent. In the eyes of Tokyo, even the most domesticated U.S.-born Nisei are loyal subjects of Japan. In sum: California is Japan's Sudetenland...
...bitter joke, Minnesota's labor-baiting Representative Harold Knutson introduced a bill to pay General MacArthur's besieged soldiers time-and-a-half for overtime, double-time for fighting on Sunday. On Bataan peninsula, MacArthur's men heard the joke, calculated that the total sum due would purchase 500 fighter planes. A suggestion was cabled home (via TIME'S correspondent): if Congress wished to do them any favors, please send the planes instead of the overtime checks...