Word: totaled
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...insisted on his discharge. Mr. Bardo admitted that Shearer was later re-employd by Laurence Russell Ilder on a project for building liners to cross the Atlantic in four days. On that project $143,000 had been spent on promotion but Shearer received only $5,000. Of the total, $24,000 went for hotel bills and entertainment in Washington...
Bombing Attack. The freebooting ally of Marshal Simmons, General Borah of Idaho, leader of the Republican irregulars, opened the battle by leading a bombing attack on Manufacturing City. As his mighty bombers swept over the smoking chimneys, he first dropped propaganda on the citizens: "The total value of the manufactures imported to the United States in 1928 was less than 3.4% of the total domestic production of manufactured goods in the United States. We are now living practically under an embargo, so far as manufactured goods are concerned...
...York City, Congressman Fiorello ("Little Flower") H. La Guardia, flamboyant campaigner, Wet, contested for the Republican nomination for Mayor with William M. Bennett, Dry. In the count there were nearly four La Guardia votes for every Bennett vote. Yet the total vote cast was not much over 80,000 compared to 714.000 votes cast for Herbert Hoover last November. Democrats used the figure to show how hopeless would be Mr. La Guardia's chances of performing the miracle of defeating silk-hatted Mayor James John Walker. Undaunted, little Mr. La Guardia made answer that he had not tried...
...Greater London & Counties Trust, Ltd., is not an independent company, is controlled by Harley Clarke's Utilities Power & Light Corp. of Chicago. Utilities Power & Light controls eight U. S. companies which supply electricity, also gas, to St. Louis, Indianapolis and 830 other U. S. cities and towns with a total population of more than 2,800,000. Counting its British subsidiary, Utilities Power & Light last year* showed a net of $5,999,168. Gross British revenues equalled about one-fourth of gross U. S. and British revenues combined...
...categories he mentions. It might be assumed that the eliminations are rather beneficial than tragic and that both students and university benefit from the severing of a connection that hinders both in attaining their real goals. But Mr. Nichols' explanation does not cover more than a fraction of the total number of casualties. Artists, artisans, adventurers and scholars do not form as large a percentage of any student body as the figures would indicate and there remains a substantial residue of those whose failure must be accounted for on other grounds...