Word: summing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...brother William Kissam Vanderbilt. The syndicate undertook to raise $400,000, which is $200,000 less than Enterprise cost. Proposed $40,000 shares were split down to $4,000 units, but, even so, subscriptions were slow. To avoid further delay members of the syndicate underwrote the whole sum, gave the word to the Herreshoff Yard in Bristol, R. I. to go ahead...
...balance in the treasury on September 1 was $1,057.14. To date $5,192.25 has been collected from this year's pledges, and of this sum $102.29 has been spent for secretarial expenses, while $3,000 has gone to Phillips Brooks House, leaving a balance of $3,147.10. There remains $3,240.99 to be collected from pledges. Further expenditures from the treasury will be used for local charities, class activities, and the support of other organizations...
...issuing bankers but also from: 1) banks engaged in financing foreign trade, 2) importers and exporters and 3) "foundations and public-spirited citizens." An annual budget of $100,000 will be raised in part by offering non-voting Council memberships to "founders" who pay a large lump sum and "contributing members" who pay yearly dues...
...Manhattan last week Bibliophile Abraham Simon Wolf Rosenbach said that $511,250 for the Codex Sinaiticus was the largest sum ever paid for a book or manuscript, that the U. S. S. R. had offered it to him last year...
...back the full amount they had paid in on installment, plus interest. ¶Stockholders of Socony-Vacuum finally satisfied the proposed merger of their Far Eastern oil properties with those of Standard Oil (N. J.) (TIME, Aug. 21). Thus a new overseas empire came into being, stronger than the sum of its parts: whereas Socony-Vacuum had markets in the East but no production, and Standard Oil had production but lacked markets, new Standard-Vacuum Oil Co. will have both. ¶It was news last October when Atlas Tack Corp. announced that it had started to make bottle-caps...