Word: amounting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...addition to these there are the Post Office Department, which is supposed to pay for itself, and the sums required for retiring part of tho public debt and paying interest. The amount of money devoted to debt service is about $1,310,000,000, or two-thirds as much as all other expenditures...
Federal subsidies for states now amount to $110,000,000 a year, of which $80,000,000 is for roads. The President recommended restricting road subsidies in future to interstate roads...
Finally MM. Briand and Loucheur held a long series of conferences as to the possibility of getting an eight billion franc per annum tax increase through the Chamber in any form whatever. Since the outstanding indebtednesses of France will continue to mature at a rate demanding approximately this amount of additional cash, the alternative to voting it would seem to be national bankruptcy...
...adhere to the Court what objections will be imposed upon us. I answer, just one, the payment of our proportionate share of the expenses of the Court, which will amount to about $35,000 a year...
...parsonage when the Crown Prince of Nicomedia dies. A general and a count come to claim her for the little comic opera kingdom as its heir presumptive, the daughter of the King's youngest son. For a girl in her early teens, Ernestine Sophie has admittedly a remarkable amount of poise, extraordinary insight and understanding. She likewise develops into an excellent shot with the revolver. So she goes to the intriguing little court and sets it upon its ear. The Princess finds two men who love her dearly, besides revolutionary plots and a near-revolution, but all are successfully...