Word: totaled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...smaller retail businesses, it is easier to find evidence of recession in Cambridge. During the past year, total sales volume dropped six per cent, and many a small merchant is feeling the pinch for the first time since the war. New out-of-town highway stores have joined with buyer resistance in cutting down business...
...true that the Air Force, with its $1.4 billion B-36 program, was "putting all its eggs in one basket?" General Hoyt Vandenberg, Air Force chief, answered with figures. B-36s, he said, comprised only 5% (four groups) of the total of regular military aircraft. The Air Force also had eleven groups of other bombers (about 330 B-29s and B-50s), and some 33 groups of heavy and medium reconnaissance, fighter, troop carrier and other miscellaneous aircraft...
There were certain delays. The delegation was asked, with horror, why it had not had a police escort. The answer: "We trusted in the Lord, as always." Fourteen tellers were set to work counting up the bills, needed 3½ hours to verify the total. But by evening the faithful had their check. By the next day the hotel had been purchased and one Brother Germain had announced new rules for guests: 1) no smoking, 2) no drinking, 3) no wives and husbands allowed in the same bedroom...
...captain, with a swatch of ribbons on his chest but no money in his pockets. His older brother Georges, a doctor in Manhattan, urged Raymond to join him. At 26, still wearing his captain's uniform (the only clothing he had), Loewy sailed for the U.S. with a total capital of $40. Aboard ship, his sketching so impressed Sir Harry Gloster Armstrong, then British consul general in New York, that he gave him a note of introduction to Publisher Conde Nast...
...coming election, nine councilmen and six School Committee members must be selected from a total of 56 candidates--40 for Council and 16 for the School Committee. Of those running the Cambridge Civic Association, a non-partisan group of voters, has endorsed 15. All others are campaigning as independents...