Word: amounts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...downsurge sure to follow; and in the meantime France would lose immeasurably through the disruption of business occasioned by unsteady currency. Just now France sits fiscally pretty. Her trade balance is favorable. The Treasury has recently refunded advances previously made to it by the Bank of France to the amount of 900,000,000 francs. Such are the blessings which have flowed from holding the franc steady at its present value for almost two years (TIME, Jan. 3, 1927) under the Sacred Union Cabinet of Prime Minister Poincare...
...each what she produces" seems fair enough, until the impossibility of ascertaining the amount each produces proves the plan nonsensical...
...each class of society a fixed amount, according to scale" provides more of course, for the bank president than for the street scavenger, but the impossibility of gauging just how much more vitiates the plan...
...highest officials of the Administration and a prominent member of the army, General José Alvarez, the Chief of my Headquarters Staff, who had enjoyed my friendship and confidence, has proved traitor to the most elementary principles of honor and morality by not only directing and manipulating a large amount of contraband merchandise but also by using my name in telegraphic orders to protect such merchandise and to assure himself of immunity...
...hospital bedchamber where he sat, like a squire with the gout, one bandaged leg propped up in front of him on a cushioned stool. Despite his injuries, Mr. Woodin was capable of declaring dividends of $1.75 on American Car & Foundry's $30,000,000 preferred stock (the regular amount); of $1.50 on its 600,000 shares of no par value common...