Word: totaled
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Counsel for the Arboretum maintains in its final brief that by moving six-sevenths of the total Arnold collection to Cambridge, the University has violated the trust which stipulated that they must act "in the sole interest of the Arnold Arboretum." Furthermore, by arranging for the Arboretum director to teach undergraduate botany courses, Harvard is clearly benefiting "other interests...
...sponsors' fees-$5,000,000 each for NBC's Tic Tac Dough and CBS's Name That Tune, Big Payoff, Top Dollar. The number of quiz-panel-contest shows that survived was still 13 at week's end. If they are dropped too, the total loss in sponsors' fees will bulge to a bank-breaking $80 million...
...scrap of paper ($447 million), Morgan characteristically glanced at it briefly, snapped: "I accept." At one time Morgan controlled six banks and trust companies, three life insurance companies, ten railroads and a cluster of huge corporations. He and his associates held 341 directorships in 112 com panies with total resources of $22 billion...
...were ordered by President Eisenhower to protect U.S. producers. Japanese now account for 90% of all imports. New restrictions are aimed at cutting flatware imports from Japan to 5,750,000 dozen pieces; duties of 60% to 67^½% will be imposed on all imports in excess of that total...
Thomas Alva Edison's pet hates were "small-brained" capitalists and "bulge-head" professors. He disliked capitalists because they never put enough money into his proliferating inventions, and professors because they ridiculed his nearly total ignorance of algebra. Said Edison: "I can hire mathematicians at $15 a week, but they can't hire...