Word: totaled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...familiar to you. You will find the fifth on pages 42 and 43 of this issue; the sixth will appear in TIME'S issue of Sept. 12. With the illustrations and the accompanying text they constitute a series of advertisements about advertising that will have appeared in a total of 41,000,000 copies of TIME, LIFE and FORTUNE by the time the last advertisement has been published...
...June, the Government had in one year poured a whopping $64 million into the pockets of Aroostook potato men, to buy up the surplus from Maine's biggest cash crop. Some of the takes were eye-popping examples of the nation's weirdest experiment in farm pharmacy (total U.S. cost last year: $225 million). At least two Aroostook potato shippers collected Government checks for around $500,000; a dozen or so got more than $150,000 each; at least 31 over $100,000 apiece. In all Maine, 4,503 farmers averaged $15,000 apiece in Government bounty, Washington...
...with them on the trail. A mud-spattered Gaucho galloped up with a report from a 100,000-acre pasture 35 miles away. The boss put down his gourd of mate, pulled out a notebook and wrote: "1,250 calves branded this week." That brought the year's total to more than...
...severe form, polio or "infantile paralysis" is an uncommon disease. Last week, scare headlines reported that 1949 had already produced about 11,000 cases in the U.S.-a record total for so early in the year. But even so, there were 13,000 who had escaped the disease for every one who was stricken. Comparing 1949 with former years, health officers in New York City, Detroit and Chicago saw reason to hope that the outbreak was at or near its peak, and would soon taper...
Absolute atheism, writes Maritain, "deprives God and mankind of some potential saints, in making their attempts at heroic freedom a failure, and turning their effort to break with the world into a total and servile subservience to the world." Conversely, saints have been the greatest revolutionaries. Maritain contends that for centuries the world's temporal progress was fostered by the saints. It was only during the last hundred-odd years, when the results of the industrial revolution were bringing mankind more & more to social thinking and social action, that the saints dropped from the lead and the atheists took...