Word: amounts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last week the first and only President of the Greek Republic attracted a certain amount of attention to himself by resigning...
Total receipts for the 12 months ending June 30, 1929, were $1,070,617.61: guarantees paid to visiting teams amounted to $291,217.00: the amount available for athletics and physical education was $779,400.61: total expenses were $562,228.69. Total receipts for the preceeding year were $1,014,554.44 and all expenses amounted...
...work is not to produce good mechanics, but to develop a first rate group of leaders in various fields. Professional ambition will be sought for in any candidates for the Institute; previous education is to mean very little in the selection of the students, provided they have a certain amount of innate ability combined with intellectual curiosity and aspiration...
...clearly evident that the value of the factors labor and capital must be the cost of reproduction, the number and amount of each being relatively limitless and that, both being relatively mobile, location has little to do with value. But Natural Resources (land) being incapable of reproduction and being immovable, their value depends entirely upon location; and that location--value, in turn, depends upon accessibility and desirability, affected in large part by the expenditure of public money for highways and other public improvements. So it is seen that if we could collect taxes on the basis of land values...
...appropriations must originate, President Hoover sent his first Budget, providing for the fiscal year 1931.* Chief figure of the Hoover budget: $3,830,445,231, the Government's estimated expenditure for next year, exclusive of a postal deficit and additional outlay for the Federal Farm Board. Comparatively, this amount is $4,304,000 greater than current actual expenditures. Said President Hoover: "Our finances are in a sound condition." He envisaged surpluses of 225 million this year, 122 million next, reiterated his tax reduction recommendation...