Word: totalizer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Deficit. "Our total receipts for this year were estimated in the President's budget summation of Oct. 19 at about $6,650,000,000, and our total net expenditures at about $7,345,000,000, leaving an estimated net deficit...
What has the U. S. got to start with? The total of U. S. shipping is 26,588 vessels of more than five tons, footing up to 14,676,128 tons. The seagoing fleet is only about 1,500 vessels, more than nine-tenths of which will be obsolescent within the next five years. In vessels of twelve knots or more the U. S. ranks behind Great Britain, Germany, Japan and France. In vessels of ten years or less it ranks even behind Italy. To keep ahead of obsolescence would require a building program of $500,000,000 per year...
Last week an arbitration board composed of Messrs. David L. Podell, Emil Schlesinger, J. Winogradsky, I. Edwin Goldwasser and Samuel D. Leidesdorf sat down in Manhattan's Hotel Governor Clinton, decided that all the defendants were guilty of the "obnoxious practice," fined them a total...
...Novelist James Farrell as well as amiable, yea-saying Dr. William Lyon Phelps. So many had listened to them at the end of the first week, despite repeated demonstrations that many were far better writers than talkers, that Fair officials guessed the attendance would top last year's total of 85,000 paid admissions...
...publishing, almost half of each year's output of new titles comes from only 18 firms. As the Book Fair opened, these 18 could look back on the biggest publishing year since 1929. Last year produced 8,584 new titles -not as many as the biggest pre-Depression total, but an increase of 25% over the year before. October, traditionally the big month of the fall publishing season, saw 1,023 new books published. Macmillan, largest U. S. publisher, also a major producer of textbooks, brought out 562 new titles last year, will have published...