Word: million
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...claims against Germany, to be paid in annuities under the Dawes Plan, totaled, last September, 350 million dollars-207 million dollars for the cost of the U. S. Army of Occupation, 143 millions in mixed claims. Last year the U. S. received from Germany 20 million dollars. Though the details of the U.S. "sacrifice offer," as contained in a note despatched to the U. S. Embassy at Paris, were not immediately made public, it was learned that they amounted to about a 10% reduction in Germany's annual payments to the U. S. Though total payments were...
Besides the Rhenish wine of tradition, good Italian wine in gargantuan quantities was brought to the Pope's cellars last week by pious Italian vintners, grateful for last year's record vintage of nearly 29 million barrels...
...should a new capital city for a country of 400 million people be built? What should it include...
...should cover 100 square miles to give elbow room to its two million inhabitants...
...covering Harvard University. Perfectly reliable news stories emanate from its classic shades one day only to be denied the next. There was no reason the news given out by officials of the Harvard Athletic Association on May 3 should not have been printed tanent the raising of a ten million dollar athletic funds but on the following day President Lowell, after what was probably a frantic conference with the Overseers, Trustees and the heads of Lee Higginson (perhaps a redundant grouping) hotly denied that there was any truth in the story at all. Boston correspondents would be quite justified...