Word: amounting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Passed a bill requiring the capital of the Commodity Credit Corporation to be maintained at $100,000,000, thereby obliging the Treasury to replenish its funds when they are less than that amount and obliging the CCC to turn over to the Treasury its surplus when...
...last but James continued the insurance business with John Sargent, a shrewd Harvard-man, as Roosevelt & Sargent Inc. Son James sold a $2,500,000 policy to the American Tobacco Co. on the life of its President George Washington Hill. The Columbia Broadcasting System bought a like amount of the Roosevelt brand of insurance. In his first year with Sargent, James acquired $67,000 worth of independence. Business improved each succeeding year until James-now the richest of the Roosevelts excepting possibly his grandmother-is estimated to be worth half a million dollars. And the end is not in sight...
...west of T. W. A.'s transcontinental stop at Winslow, Meteor Crater is about 4.000 ft. in diameter, 570 ft. deep from the lip of the rim to the bottom. The force of the impact raised the crater's lip 120 ft. above the surrounding plain. The amount of weathering and other evidence in the bowl indicate that it was formed not less than 700 years ago and not more than 5,000 years. The Indians of the region have a legend that one of their gods descended to Earth at the spot in a pillar of fire...
Foley's proposal, which would take from universities, religious and scientific institutions "ten percent of the amount of the tax which would be payable on such property if subject to taxation," was strongly attacked last week by representatives of many schools and colleges, including Henry L. Shattuck...
...from another building. The research was under the direction of Karl Boyer McEachron, 48, G. E.'s ace lightning researcher, who has been designing experimental apparatus Pittsfield for 16 years, has produced artificial bolts of 10,000,000 volts, others of 250,000 amperes (amperage is the amount of current, voltage the pressure which drives it). Last week Engineer McEachron reported the results of three summers of Empire State Building study...