Word: summing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...example, Congress may appropriate such a sum of money as seems necessary for the expenses of the Post Office. Business may suddenly increase so that the Post Office has to handle much more mail than was anticipated. The income of the Post Office increases proportionately, but the amount of money it may expend in handling the increased business remains exactly the same?the amount which Congress had appropriated...
...June 1, our Association has expended a trifle less than $45,000. This sum has been contributed by 3,100 persons. The World Peace Foundation subscribed $15,000, of which $5,000 has been paid. The balance has come from individuals. The two largest subscriptions are $10,000 each, of which one came from Mrs. Emmons Elaine, a Republican and well known philanthropist, and a like sum from Cleveland H. Dodge, also a well known philanthropist, a Democrat. The next largest subscription, $5,000, was made by John H. Clarke, a Democrat, and the balance was made up by individual...
...trip was fully provided for by experts engaged in December, 1919, by a Shipping Board headed by John Barton Payne under the Democratic Administration. . . . In January, 1922, the experts referred to ... asked the present Shipping Board . . . to appropriate $120,000 to cover the cost of the trial trip, which sum included the cost of guests...
...Special Budget, composed of "recoverable expenditures," i. e., payment of pensions and interest or reparations loans, attributable to Germany under the terms of the Treaty of Versailles. This Special Budget calls for $639,324,000 and as the French do not expect the Germans to pay any of this sum is will be a deadweight burden. The ordinary budget, however, places the sum of $157,500,000 at the disposal of the Special Budget. Thus, the deficit for reparations after subtracting the advance from the ordinary budget and the surplus on the ordinary budget, will leave the Government faced with...
...79th birthday by hitching up my sorrel mare and driving to the offices of The Marion Star, where I received congratulations. Later I gave my receipt for good health: 'Eat rye bread and oatmeal; they keep the arteries clean.' From my distinguished son I received a sum of money...