Word: totalizer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...lists are limited to current novels and works of nonfiction, exclude children's books and reprints, which are included in TIME's list. Last month in the book department of San Francisco's Emporium, Ferdinand sold five times as many copies as The Yearling, although its total national sales are not equal to those of the ten national best-sellers...
Since 1927 additional properties, "chiefly farms of a moderate size," with a total claimed value of $10,132,388, have been taken by Mexico. "This figure does not include the large land grants frequently mentioned in the press." None of these seizures has yet been paid for. "Certainly on the basis of the record above stated, the United States Government cannot be accused of being unreasonable or impatient...
...appointment left BBC without a director-general, the choice of his successor was a matter of prime public interest. Britishers had come to believe that dour, resourceful Sir John was the BBC. For he had never hesitated to take on his own broad, stooped Scottish shoulders direct and total responsibility for BBC policies and moral tone...
Twelve-Metres. Twelves are 68 ft. long, cost around $40,000, are popular in the Scandinavian countries and the British Isles. There are only a dozen Twelves in the U. S. Winner last week was Alfred Loomis' Northern Light which, although tied on total points with Frederick Bedford's Nyala, was awarded the championship because it had won two first places during the week to Nyala...
Said gracious Miss Roche, elaborating on her February report: "Fifty million Americans are in families receiving less than $1,000 a year. . . . The average cost of private medical care is $76 a person annually. . . . The total [yearly] cost of illness and premature death is $10,000,000,000. We cannot attack successfully with small change a ten-billion-dollar problem." She proposed that the Government embark on a ten-year program to spend $850,000,000 annually. Suggested appropriations: $705,000,000 for expansion of public health facilities, development of maternity and child health centres, financing of medical specialists, eradication...