Word: amounting
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...strike had been costly for both sides. The 400 striking Guildsmen together with the 1,000 A.F.L. printers, stereotypers and pressmen who had refused to cross Guild picket lines had already lost upwards of $1,000,000 in wages. The World-Telegram and Sim had lost a huge amount in advertising and circulation revenue. But the full cost of the strike to management was still an unknown quantity. While the W.T. & S. was off the newsstands, New York's two other evening papers had both increased their daily circulation. It was estimated that the Post had jumped about...
...warned that if he talked too much about dumping rain on the watersheds New York City might be sued by outraged farmers and resort owners in the Catskills. Until a fortnight ago he never mentioned his results. Then he cautiously admitted that his efforts had produced "a certain amount" of rain. In the same breath he suggested that on some occasions they might also have lessened the normal rainfall by overseeding...
...campaign, later named by Whittaker Chambers as a Red. Pressman formally resigned from the American Labor Party, one of the Progressives' wings. The party gave him a characteristic farewell. Snapped A.L.P. Chairman Vito Marcantonio, New York Congressman: "It is obvious that Mr. Pressman is disappointed in the amount of fees he expected to get from the progressive movement when he left the C.I.O. Not having received such fees he has now joined the parade of fakers . . . Good riddance...
...living." G.M.'s contribution to the cause: a fat $2.50 extra dividend on top of its regular $1.50 quarterly payment. All told, G.M. stockholders will get $176 million for the quarter, of which $40 million will go to Du Pont, biggest G.M. stockholder. G.M. dividends this year already amount to $7 a share v. 1949's total payment...
...customer between the age .of three months and 46 years, who agrees to save from $200 to $1,000 by making regular monthly deposits, gets a free life-insurance policy without a physical examination. If the depositor dies before his savings program is completed, his beneficiary gets the full amount that he intended to save...