Word: summing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...dairy department of Iowa State College. He addressed the American Institute of Co-operation at Chicago: "The individual who may be interested in cheese making is at present likely to become somewhat discouraged. The cheese industry of the United States can well afford to invest a fair sum of money in advertising its product. There is no other food product to be had in which nutritive value, wholesomeness and palatability are so well combined. It is unnatural that there should be only a limited effort of the manufacturers. Education and advertising should create a greater demand. Very...
Photomaton, Inc. is the company which, organized last April (TIME, April 4), paid one Anatol Josepho the sum of $1,000,000 for rights to his invention, the "Photomaton." This device is a kind of automatic camera, enclosed in a slot-machine. Drop a quarter in the slot, the camera starts to work, out comes a strip of eight sepia photographs of the quarter-dropper, all in eight minutes. Photomaton, Inc. is backed by a syndicate of such famed figures as onetime (1913-16) Ambassador to Turkey Henry Morgenthau, President Harbord of the Radio Corp., John T. Underwood (typewriters...
...German bailiff, acting for 3r. Julius Puppe of Pittsburgh, attempted to serve a writ of attachment on the Columbia, because Dr Puppe claimed that Mr. Levine has owed him $11,000 since 1924. Lawyers suggested that both parties apologize, that Mr. Levine pay Dr. Puppe an unnamed sum. The German press politely tried to hush the incident...
...said Viscount Byng, "in view of the recent charges made by Lord Rosebery that many peerages are bought with money which finds its way into party funds. ... I am of the opinion that a titular reward ought not to be conditional upon the payment of any at all substantial sum...
...British Treasury announced last week without comment the significant fact that onetime (1921-26) Governor-General Baron Byng of Canada has refused to pay a so-called "peerage patent fee" demanded by the Treasury. Theoretically this sum, amounting to several hundred pounds, is due as payment for inserting in the Official Gazette a paragraph to the effect that, last fall, Baron Byng was elevated to the style of Viscount. Actually, of course, the "fee" is a time-honored bit of British graft. How did Lord Byng explain his nonpayment...