Word: sums
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...construction schedule called for completion, within four years, of dams, new locks, dredging operations in the Great Lakes-St. Lawrence waterways. Total present estimated cost: $262,170,000. But even this huge sum did not worry some citizens so much as the President's argument, which implied that, barring the occurrence of colossal, unforeseeable events, World War II had over four years more to go. No other reading could be put on his demand for urgent construction of a power project that cannot produce power before 1945, even if work should start tomorrow. People winced, pulled in their belts...
...Springfield; 2) Garand; 3) Johnson; 4) Winchester. Best that the board could say for the Garand was that it was "superior to the other semi-automatic rifles"; "superior in the number of well-aimed shots that can be fired per minute"; could be quickly cleaned in the field. Sum and substance of the findings was that the Garand was a fair-weather rifle, excellent on the practice range but far from good enough for the Marines when the going got tough. The going in the test was very tough. Examples...
...objections which are sure to find voice when the government grant is actually apportioned. The chief one is that Boston settlement houses do not come within the proper sphere of Harvard's activities under the NYA program. But Radcliffe, which has had NYA support since 1933, spends a sizeable sum every year in sending workers to Boston social projects. Furthermore, Phillips Brooks House itself would be tremendously benefited by the money, and certainly PBH is an important and integral part of the College. And it is too obvious to need comment that the University would measurably improve its town...
...petition calls attention to the fact that the University has been offered, and refused, $87,500 for the privilege of broadcasting next fall's football games, a sum which all but cancels the expected reduction in next year's athletic budget...
...petition, which will be extended to other centers of the College today, calls attention to the fact that the University has previously been offered, and refused, $37,500 for the privilege of broadcasting Crimson football games, a sum which all but cancels the expected reduction in next year's athletic budget...