Word: funding
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...features of these city debts are often overlooked: first, the larger the per capita debt the higher rents are bound to be; and second, all the inhabitants of each city must thus pay interest and sometimes sinking-fund charges upon them...
...Field, to Mrs. Sara Carroll Brown Field; in Chicago. Since their divorce over a year ago (when he charged wilful and persistent desertion), their son and two daughters have sought the reconciliation. Mr. Field is President of the Field Museum, Chicago, which was provided with an endowment and building fund of $10,000,000 by his uncle, Marshall Field...
...course, this surplus of receipts over expenditures was not lying in the Treasury vaults. It was used in retiring the public debt?as an addition to the regular sinking fund provided for that purpose. The result of this application of the sinking fund and the surplus furnishes another pleasing bit of arithmetic...
Figures: Attendance, 45,000; gate, $200,000; for the Milk Fund...
...back the amount obtained by the artists, as far as it is not covered 'by the works that have passed into the hands of the creditors. If a profit is realized the artist gets a certain percentage of it, while the rest is set aside to form a fund covering inevitable losses. It takes from the artist the care of daily existence, giving him the opportunity of selling his works at reasonable prices to a circle of amateurs, who become especially interested...