Word: amount
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Shrewd Englishmen of "The City"-London's "Wall Street"-weighed carefully what was said by Britain's chemical tycoon, Lord Melchett, upon his return last week from hobnobbing in U. S. tycoon-dom (TIME, Oct. 29). "American prosperity is based upon two factors. One is the large amount of money earned during the War at the expense of Europe, the effect of which was to enable America to remodel her old plants and build new factories. The other is the great productivity of the American workman, based partly on the greater use of mechanical power and partly...
...Though this Division three plans of improvement will be carried into effect. The first is the adoption of a progressive Signal Control system. To facilitate this Boston has been divided into four zones each zone mapped out according to the amount of traffic occurring in it. The first unit includes Boylston Tremont and Washington streets and will have the new tricolor signals installed this winter. The City Council has granted $125,000 for this one zone. The other three areas will be completed in the order of their importance...
...Italian public debt securities to the value of 140,000.000 lire ($7,300,000) were symbolically burned upon two Pagan altars by Il Duce. The securities had been contributed by patriotic citizens, and their destruction of course reduced the public debt by the amount of their face value and interest. The Pagan altars employed were originally used to offer up sacrifices to Goddess Minerva and Goddess Lucina...
...University who know nothing about it something of its origin and purpose. The Fund was founded late in 1925 by a group of Alumni who felt that the graduate body should have an organization through which a man might contribute each year to the University a small or large amount of money, according to his individual means, entirely for unrestricted use. An Alumni board known as the Harvard Fund Council, consisting of 30 members each to serve six years, was formed to administer the Fund. From 1925 to Commencement, 1928, Mr. Howard Elliott, '81, of New York was president...
Reports of the conference with Mr. Morgan were to the effect that the world market could not absorb sufficient German bonds to make the lump payment project feasible. In this case the statesmen can do no better than to definitely fix the amount of the annual payments, and the numbers of years during which Germany shall continue to pay them...