Word: totaled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Vice Minister of the Political Training Board of the National Council, made an estimate of the Chinese guerrillas' effectiveness. His optimistic figures: There are ten guerrilla regiments operating in each of ten war areas. Each of the 100 regiments snipes off ten Japanese soldiers daily, thus giving a total of 1,000 Japanese deaths daily, or 365,000 yearly, from guerrilla warfare alone. The General claimed that a well-established guerrilla base could tie up 50,000 Japanese in police and garrison duty...
...British Open, world's No. 1 golf tournament. But when the field narrowed down to two, one of the finalists was an American: big Johnny Bulla, a Chicago pro who was playing in his first British tournament. After finishing his last round in 73 for a 72-hole total of 292, it looked as if an American would once again win the Open. But while Johnny Bulla fidgeted in the clubhouse and 5,000 Britons held their breath, Richard Burton, a Cheshire pro, ambled up to his ball on the 18th green, sank a long putt for a birdie...
Back in January 1937, few shrewd investors would have wasted a second look at bonds of the tiny Philippine Railway Co., sick sugar-hauling road on the islands of Panay and Cebu. Selling around $11, the $8,549,000 issue was about to mature, apparently a total loss to U. S. bondholders. Then came rumors that Washington might act, that the Philippine Commonwealth would redeem the issue at $65. Bonds shot up to $31 in January and February as speculators bought for the rise, crashed when President Manuel Quezon denied his Government was buying them. Smelling a rigger, SEC investigated...
...world (the largest: Texas Gulf Sulphur), which supplies some 27% of the world's supply of brimstone sulphur. Last year gross sales were $10,050,355. With its financial socks pulled up, Freeport Sulphur paid dividends of $2 on 796,380 shares of common stock, has paid a total of 50? in the first half...
Actually the sale of cheap books in the U. S. is a good deal bigger than most people suppose. Reprints, at 39? to $2.49, total at least 10,000,000 copies a year. Biggest sellers: Grosset and Dunlap and Garden City (about 3,000,000 each). Another 10,000,000 is added by the nonprofit-making National Home Library's "Jacket Library" (15? & 25?), Haldeman-Julius' Little Blue Books (5?), Whitman Publishing Co.'s 10? Woolworth items such as Snow White...