Word: summing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...budget is a really considerable increase over the 1928-29, in fact, half a billion dollars, or roughly equivalent to the sum of all the fortunes which the John D. Rockefellers Sr. & Jr., have given away. And the 1928-29 budget was already a considerable increase over the 1927-28. And, further, these increases occur, in spite of the fact that the War caused public debt has decreased, thereby reducing interest, which is the biggest single annual expense. The conclusion seen in all this by financially minded Republican Senator Reed Smoot is that the U. S. must hereafter expect...
...fourth row of pews. As the catafalque was laid before the altar, priests were chanting the De Profundis. Solemn Requiem Mass. Funeral sermon. "Death is not a parting, but a meeting." No eulogy. "Resurrectio sum et vita...
...city to live in. Dominating its industrial life, chief support of its storekeepers and its landlords, are, of course, its famed cotton textile mills. And since the War, New Bedford mills have done exceedingly well, declaring cash dividends of over $32,000,000, stock dividends of about half that sum. They employ 35,000 operatives. They produce a high grade of cloth, so high that they are virtually free from the competition of Southern mills...
...international press by openly alluding in provocative, general terms to what has been agreed. Such a course might be christened "Secropen Diplomacy." Such was the course steered, last week, by British Foreign Secretary Sir Austen Chamberlain and French Foreign Minister Aristide Briand. They sent a résumé of their secret agreement to U. S. Secretary of State Frank Billings Kellogg, who was not authorized to divulge its text...
...last week, a small baldish man named Paul Block announced he had bought the Brooklyn (N. Y.) Standard Union. The price was $1,000,000 or thereabouts. For the Standard Union it was a tidy sum, because for all its 65 years of distinguished history, the paper was losing money at the rate of about $25,000 dollars a month...