Word: totaled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Received from its Appropriations Committee the largest military budget in peace time history. The $15.9 billion total was $631 million above what the President asked for, would give the Air Force enough extra funds to provide 58 groups next year instead of the 48 the President had recommended...
That explanation might do for the pulps, but not for the comics. Some other comic-book publishers were thriving, and total sales were still 60 million copies a month. The fact was that Street & Smith had ridden off in another direction-into the women's field. There Street & Smith's Mademoiselle, Charm and Mademoiselle's Living were selling 1,272,000 an issue among them...
Inside the X-1 are intricate recording instruments that total more than 500 Ibs. This week, as Chuck brought the plane down once again, the records were greedily grabbed, as usual, by Muroc's scientists and airplane designers. Already the records have had a profound effect on high-speed modern aircraft. When production aircraft fly faster than sound, as scientists are sure they will one day, their pilots will thank the X-1, the first airplane to pass through the transonic zone and bring back information...
...much to whip the saloon. Cannon's favorite tactic was to sue his detractors for huge amounts in libel suits that he tried to settle for small amounts out of court. In his day he sued a Congressman for $500,000 and William Randolph Hearst for a total of $7,500,000. He lost the one, settled the Hearst suits out of court, also lost his suits against TIME, which had called him "reactionary," and LIFE, which had said he was "bigoted...
...American music. Harvard will be represented by professors Benjamin F. Wright and Clyde K. M. Kluckhohn, and Florence Kluckhohn. The administrative stuff is busy now raising the $60,000 budget. A grant of $15,000 from the Rockefeller Foundation helped the drive considerably, but about half of the total is still to be collected...