Word: amounting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...dormitory managers should make a real effort to keep interest at a high pitch and men who sign up to play should report at a majority of the games. It would be an unjust imposition on the H.A.A. if Yardlings allow their league to fizzle again when a small amount of conscientious effort would keep it alive and successful...
...subsidized lines, should be completely reorganized. To make it easier to do all this-in spite of the fact that Imperial Airways last year paid 9% on its shares-the Government upped their yearly civil aviation subsidy to $15,000,000, twice the previous sum and 75% of the amount paid by the U. S. Post Office to airlines...
...before the roads folded up completely. In their own good time, last week the eleven commissioners, Mr. Mahaffie dissenting, let the commission's pleasure be known. Instead of granting the 15% the railroads had asked or even the 10% that Wall Street had predicted, the commission authorized increases amounting to an average of about 5.3%,* remarking: "An increase of 15% generally based upon a normal volume of traffic, as proposed, is for a larger amount than is reasonably necessary to meet the purposes of the increase...
...corporations, 98% of those filing income tax returns, had assets of less than $5,000,000 and 386,000 had assets of less than $1,000,000. Between July 1933 and September 1936 SEC received 483 security registration statements from small companies. Their total requirements amounted to $273,000,000, an average of $565,000 apiece. In only one in four cases was more than 50% of the amount registered actually sold. In 163 cases no securities were sold at all. It seemed apparent to Mr. Vass that small business was not getting the credit it wanted and "the well...
During the Tercentenary Year the Alumni Directory Office had to send out more than a million pieces of mail, which is the largest amount that they have had to handle in recent years. One of the largest problems of the Office is making sure that all the information on alumni is up-to-date, and every time that a correction comes in for a graduate's address or occupation, all the file cards that contain his name have to be changed, while new metal plates have to be made for the mechanical files...