Word: totality
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Aeronautical Chamber of Commerce published a survey that showed the U. S. leading the world in commercial aviation with some 5,500,000 miles flown, some 200,000 passengers in the past year. The figures were misleading because: 1) The geographical size of the U. S. swelled the mileage total over figures for European countries; 2) The U. S. passengers were not carried over regularly scheduled lines from point to point, but included trippers and excursionists going up for trial spins at amusement parks. Last week figures on European aviation were published and few were surprised to see that Germany...
Rosenwald Fund. In 1914, Julius Rosenwald, most notable of Chicago philanthropists, established a co-operative fund for helping southern Negroes to education. By report last week 3,400 school buildings have since been erected. Public school authorities have contributed $8,402,580 to the total cost of the scheme, white citizens $694,142, Negro citizens $3,110,410 and the Rosenwald Fund $2,621,814. Alfred K. Stern, executive director of the Fund, commenting on this report, stated in The Survey: "The most outstanding feature to my mind is the fact that the Negroes have contributed about as much...
...week visit the 20,250 U. S. theatres would think of giving his promissory note. Admission fees-$700,000,000 last year-are in current money, money that flows from exhibitor to distributor, to producer, to investor-cash, cash. The cinema, with yearly income 50% of its total investment, is a stable, an important industry. And the most important figure in it is a little man, Adolph Zukor, who last week gave a smiling, chattering welcome to his friends-bankers, actors, merchants, politicos-come for the opening of his new Paramount Theatre in Manhattan. This new theatre...
...reported at yesterday's meeting. Among these was Willard Howard '27, a letter man two years ago who did not play last year because of an injury sustained in baseball. The members of last year's undefeated Freshman sextet and several stars who were ineligible last season swell the total of first-class material from which Coach Bigelow will mould the team to face a hard schedule...
...Haven, Conn., November 21.--With tallies by Carr, Trevett and Danielian swelling the Crimson total, the Harvard soccer team came from behind to score a 3 to 2 triumph over Yale here yesterday afternoon...