Word: amounting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...although 7% of $100,000. In one case the railroad earns less than it is permitted (6%) profit, in the other it makes more but has to donate to the Government $500 (half of its excess $1,000). Last year all the U. S. railroads earned 5.23% on the amount of money it would have taken to have constructed them anew (according to the Committee of Public Relations of the Eastern Railroads). Railroads prefer the larger, replacement values upon which to base transportation rates, and so, profits. But shippers insist on a fixed, 1914 valuation. The I. C. C., they...
During the third week of the Harvard Fund, 501 men contributed to it a total of $11,165.30. This represents a larger number of contributors than the first week, but less than last week. The total amount, also, while considerably above the best total of any week in 1926, is under the total of either of the first two weeks of this year. By Saturday, April 2, 1,695 men had given to the Fund $52,751.55. At this point the Fund has more than one-half as many subscribers as it had in 1926; and has collected approximately...
...these funds is to be used for the care and maintenance of the Arboretum. The income from the second is to be added to the principal for another 100 years when the income is to be available for the Arboretum. It has been estimated that the funds will amount to something like...
...33rd Street, Manhattan, in which the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers Co-operative Trust Co. occupied ground floor space. They vacated, leaving to Mr. Loft fine banking fixtures worth $150,000. When salvaging junkmen offered him only $25,000 for all the equipment, he decided that for such an amount he might well play as a neighborhood banker himself. His bank, created last week, has capital of $750,000, surplus of $250,000; is named Emerald National Bank & Trust...
Secondly, a certain amount of work in public speaking is offered in the English department. This involves the preparation and delivery of speeches, a useful form of English composition. It involves, also, discovering and, if possible, correcting defects in the use of the voice, Work of this sort is useful as a preparation in after life...