Word: totalizer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...without hindrance and the Atlantic Seaboard faced no oil shortage comparable to that threatening in coal (see p. 18). For most people, a surprising piece of strike news was that tankers comprise 24% of the U. S. Merchant Marine. Standard Oil of New Jersey with 72 ships (total cost about $70,000,000) operates 17% of U. S. tankers, with its foreign fleets controls 13% of the world's tanker tonnage...
Capacity wise: All capital goods investment (private and Government) put $15,000,000,000 to $20,000,000,000 a year of total new money to work in each War year. Production doubled between 1914 and 1917, the pace of U. S. economic activity stepped up, the way was paved for the still greater output during the 1920s. In 1926 production was 10% greater than the 1917 peak. U. S. economy has grown in size. Example: Wartime steel capacity was overstrained to produce 40,000,000 tons; present capacity is over 70,000,000 tons. In the grown-up economy...
...various problems of overlapping administration. The three merging churches have between them 65 bishops, some 25,000 ministers, about 43,000 churches, 2,900 schools and colleges, many a hospital and social-service agency, several rich publishing houses, a combined budget of $80,000,000 a year, a total investment in the U. S. of well over a billion dollars...
...less Freshmen will receive acceptance-notices today than did last year, because of the preference for upperclassmen. The number of Yardling applications is almost identical with the figure for the class of 1941. The total of 347 unsuccessful applications is the same as last year...
This makes a total of forty-four young men from various colleges who have been appointed Junior Fellows at Harvard since the founding of the Society in 1933. The nearest existing approach to the Harvard Society is foun at some of the English colleges, especially Trinity, Cambridge...