Word: amounts
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...prominent graduates of the University a campaign has been launched to raise the $100,000 which it has been estimated will be required to equip and maintain the University R. O. T. C. at a grade equal to a Federal camp. Although a considerable part of this amount has already been contributed by generous alumni, money is still needed. In the circular letter which has been sent to the graduates of the University the following paragraph briefly sets forth the situation...
With this in view the Federal Government has issued these bonds in $50 denominations. The above committee hopes to persuade the sale of many such securities among University students to aid this district in overscribing the amount which conservative estimates have held would be taken...
...business candidates are required to solicit advertising and do a certain amount of clerical work. Such experience as may be gained from contact with business men and the operation of the paper will be valuable to a man after graduation, and in addition the successful candidates will have the opportunity of competing for the office of business manager in their Junior year...
Some of the huge amount of money which we must pay for war may come out of the current generation by taxes. Yet such taxes can both theoretically and actually pay but a small part of the heavy cost. The Government has offered millions of dollars in bonds to be subsidized for by the people. In this way coming generations may help pay for the cost of the war which we wage for the whole future no less than for the present...
...nation we are united in knowing that billions, (an inconceivable amount), must be spent for war. We are ready to rasie the money by taxes. Yet when those taxes bear home, and we are threatened with being compelled to pay our share in dollars of this inconceivable billions, war expenditures become painful and terrible...