Word: amounts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Wilson is a stern Justice and a Mississippi orator. In one of his first cases in the Islands he had declared: "I am responsible only to Homer Cummings and to God Almighty." He refused to dismiss a case against a minor public works employe charged with pilfering a small amount of lumber and cement. Instead, he put witnesses on the stand, questioned them and then, without a jury, found the employe guilty and fined him $200, saying, "You have become a Judas and Benedict Arnold to your country." This procedure was, according to the Department of Justice, proper under Danish...
...annuity fund for 45 years, would be 40% on the first $150 of his monthly wage. Thus if a man works at a wage income of $100 a month for 45 years he will have contributed $1,050 to the annuity fund and his employers an equal amount. The total sum, $2,100, even with 3% interest added, cannot provide many $40-a-month pension payments. On the other hand a man of 20 cannot expect on the average to live beyond 66 so that the Government figures on breaking even...
Fracture & Diabetes. After noting that several of his patients developed diabetes soon after breaking a leg, Dr. Robert Vivian Funs ten of the University of Virginia discovered that every fracture increases the amount of sugar in the blood and that such increase was just enough to make an outright diabetic of a person already on the verge of the disease...
...collection for half a million dollars. The sale Curator Hobson considered a rare bargain. "It was truly a princely gesture on the part of Mr. Eumorfopoulos," said he last week. "It is impossible to estimate the value of some of the pieces, but the collection might easily amount to ?500,000." The next great international exhibition at the Royal Academy's Burlington House will be of Chinese art, scheduled for next winter. Collector Eumorfopoulos has agreed to serve on the committee. He will sail for China next month to help choose some of the famed Forbidden City treasures which...
From 1901, when Steel sprang full-fashioned from the thunderous brow of John Pierpont Morgan the Elder, until 1933, it paid its $7 preferred dividend on the quarterly dot. Then the dividend was cut to $2, and arrears now amount to $36,000,000. A restoration of the dividend would mean only one thing: the presumably sagacious Steel directors were convinced that Steel can earn it and earn it steadily...