Word: summing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Railroad System operated at a net deficit of $139,000,000. Last year it cut this loss down to about $40,000,000. But the return on its invested capital was only 1.8%. Yet during Depression two eastern trunk lines have spent or will shortly spend a sum sufficient to build and equip a system as big as Atlantic Coast Line R.R. New York Central's improvements on Man- hattan's West Side call for a total outlay of $175,000,000. Pennsylvania's great electrification and terminal program is costing...
...shortly to be considered by the house Banking and Currency Committee, provides that the loans should be made only by banks which are members of the Federal reserve system. It limits the total amount to about $1,000,000,000 and stipulates that fifty per cent of this sum shall be used for loans ranging from $1,000 to $25,000 and about 33 1-3 per cent of the money shall be loaned in amounts from $25,000 to $100,000 and that the remainder, namely 16 2-3 per cent, shall take care of the loans above...
Officials here are gratified over the remarkable response given the insurance plan by all the banks. The latter are not now opposed to the insurance of deposits up to $2,500, but doubt whether any larger sum should be covered...
...Coinage, Weights & Measures Committee would hear the opinions of all the most vociferous money theorists-hard, soft, and elastic-Dr. O. M. W. Sprague, Frank Vanderlip. Father Coughlin, Professor Irving Fisher, Banker James P. Warburg, etc. etc. Before their voices could distract the country, the President acted. He sum moned all the members of the Senate and House Banking and Currency Committees ta a White House monetary soiree. He told them exactly what steps he wished to take next and why. The following noon he sent a message to Congress making the outline of his plans clear to every John...
...night last week, and smiled his satisfaction upon the galleries. There was plenty to smile about, for not one seat in the huge house was vacant. A crowd of 16,000. biggest ever to attend a U. S. tennis match, had paid $30,125 to get in. Of that sum the Garden collected $10,500. Mrs. William Randolph Hearst's Free Milk Fund for Babies got $3,760. Promoter Tilden, his business manager William O'Brien, and Ellsworth Vines, his opponent across the net, were to share about $15,000 for what was to happen in the next...