Word: amounts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...absorption of a large amount of labor that would otherwise be discharged from the royal dockyards. . . . "We are indebted to the Board of Admiralty for the help they have rendered. . . . They have furnished us with loyal help toward achieving our objective with the least possible dislocation and hardship." Pained British taxpayers visioned millions of their money being spent vaguely on "naval repairs." Watching the Hoover-MacDonald naval parings, Japanese Naval Minister Takeshi Takerabe said: "We cannot fail to derive inspiration from such examples...
...Consumption taxes, at present paid by purchasers of sugar, coffee, tea, spice, candles, soap and sacks, to be abolished, the amount being included in the tariff instead...
Laggard students who flunk and repeat courses cost more to educate than smart ones who pass everything. This is manifestly unfair in a public school-system in which each student should benefit from the same amount of the public funds. W. M. Kern, school superintendent of Walla Walla, Wash., believes that laziness accounts for most failures. Last week he asked his school board to evaluate a high school education, suggested $480, or $30 per course. He would have students who repeat courses pay $30 per repetition. Thus, he said, "no pupil could complain since each ... would have as much money...
...apartment dwellers who grumble monthly at the amount of their rent bills, might well take comfort from a consideration of the rent which Commercial National Bank & Trust Co. of New York will soon be paying. Last week this bank contracted to pay rent of almost $500,000 a year for 42 years. Its landlord will be unique Henry L. Doherty; its premises, the first five floors at No. 60 Wall Street (Cities Service Co. building, now being remodeled). Commercial National has signed a 21-year lease with an option for a 21-year renewal. During a prospective 42-year occupancy...
William Fox, cineman, was hurrying out Long Island to keep golf appointment with Cinemen Adolph Zukor (Par-amount-Famous-Lasky) and Nicholas Schenck (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer), and Cinemactor Thomas Meighan, when his Rolls-Royce collided with a car driven by a Miss Dorothy Kane, overturned, killed the Fox chauffeur, injured Cineman Fox badly. A blood transfusion (one pint) was administered...