Word: amounts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...millions in fiscal 1929. When Congress met this month, President Coolidge announced he was now advised there might be a Treasury surplus of 37 millions in fiscal 1929. Six days later, President Coolidge announced he had been re-advised, that the Treasury had underestimated by 75 millions the amount it would have to pay in tax refunds. The Treasury was thus seen facing a deficit again...
Especially significant was Inspector Hoover's recommendation that admiralty laws be amended reducing the amount of salvage that may be claimed by masters of ships which answer another's SOS. Inspector Hoover pictured the reluctance of a captain in time of peril to incur the expense of salvage. "If the amount was reduced, the master of a ship in distress would not hesitate too long before asking for help...
American Tobacco Co. this week announced the appropriation of $12,300,000 to advertise Lucky Strike cigaret in 1929. Of this amount, $6,500,000 will be spent in newspapers, virtually every U.S. daily being included in the list; $3,000,000 will be spent for billboards, $1,200,000 for magazine space, $1,000,000 for window displays and other "dealer helps," and $600,000 for radio. The $12,300,000 appropriation is probably the largest sum ever invested in the advertising of one product. General Motors has spent about $17,000,000 in a year's advertising...
...single player who started the 1928 season. The three sophomores on the team. Upton, Farrell, and Rex replace Barbee, Rarper, and Green, of last year's five. Several men from the football squad, who were expected, have failed to turn up, so that there is an unusual amount of inexperienced material in tonight's contest. Captain O'Connell and Wenner are the veterans, the former a letterman and a senior while the latter, a junior, was a regniar at times during last season but failed to hold the position. Coach E.A. Wachter was expected to choose M.E. Pierce...
...Budgets, for the years 1923 to 1929 inclusive, called for a total of $29,800,233,790 to run all branches of the Government. The Congresses appropriated $29,478,282.294, cutting the Budget Bureau's estimates by only $321,951,495, or 1.16% of the total. Of this amount, $135,468,732 was saved by the Naval Disarmament Conference, from the Budget for 1923. Since 1923, the Congresses have appropriated only $55,971,630 less than the Budget Bureau's estimates, or a margin of faultfinding and disagreement of less than .2%. President Coolidge declared himself most gratified...