Word: totality
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...they who pay the salaries of the Army, the Congress and the big Na-vee. Last week, approximately 5,000,000 citizens gingerly unfolded crisp new income tax blanks, racked perplexed brains while they tried to figure how much they owed of the $1,700,000,000 total Treasury Secretary Andrew Mellon expects.* Some, puzzling over the instructions, were gripped by despair, saw the five-year prison terms and $10,000 fines provided in Section 28 of the Instructions for false or delayed returns, staring them in the face. Most will not find the burden overheavy The $30 a week...
...result was his entrance into the moving picture industry and the production of "feature films", for which, since that time he has become world famous. Twelve years ago, the newly organized Famous Players-Lasky Corporation, a joining of the firms of Adolph Zukor and Jesse Lasky, had a total capital of $100,000. Today, the corporation is worth $100,000,000 in assets
...another year the announcement of the mid-year records of students reveals an increase in the percentage of men achieving Dean's List standing. There are 599 men on the list this year, or 18.3 percent of the total undergraduate registration, as compared with 579 last year or 17.9 percent of the enrollment...
...Corporation of the University, issued a grant of lottery, allowing Harvard to raise a sum of 8,000 pounds. But operations were sluggish, and with the money drifting in slowly, it was not until 1804 that the college had sufficient funds to start work on Stoughton Hall. The total cost was $23,700, $18,400 coming from the proceeds of the lottery and $5,300 from the general funds of the college...
...week surprised people who think every great corporation must always make money. After three months' business, its deficit was $510,445 due (unofficially) to decrease in travel, increase in number of trains, decrease in loading per car, increase in wages, and increase in cost of maintenance and repairs. Total business...