Word: summing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Packers were to sell their emergency hog purchases as pork to relief agencies at a nominal sum, as fat to soap manufacturers, as tankage to fertilizer dealers. The A. A. A. was to reimburse them for the bounties they paid out to hog raisers. The scheme would cost the Government up to $65,000,000. That sum would be derived from applying a regular processing tax to ali pork products which packers could pass on to consumers of ham, bacon, sausage, chops, lard...
...liked on German steamship tickets, but must get a special permit ("which will only be issued for very good reasons") from the Bureau if they wished to spend more than 200 marks booking passage on a foreign ship. Since no trans-Atlantic passage can be bought for such a sum (except on a freight boat), this German order amounted to a boycott of U. S. and other foreign steamship companies serving Germany On the Berlin Stock Exchange shares of North German Lloyd and Hamburg-American bounded upward. "Maritime Adviser" Helfferich, board chairman of both lines, beamed, repeated his favorite slogan...
Bail was set at the sum-enormous for Mallorca-of 10,000 pesetas ($1,175) per prisoner. Promptly Prisoner Rutherford Fullerton, grandnephew of U. S. President Rutherford B. Hayes and wealthy retired businessman of Columbus, Ohio, emerged from jail with Mrs. Lockwood whose nervous breakdown was declared "narrowly averted." They were met by a cheering crowd, composed partly of U. S. tourists and partly of Mallorcan natives...
North Tarrytown, N. Y. received a check for $10,000, half the tax due from its largest taxpayer, John Davison Rockefeller Sr. It, was the first time he had failed to pay the taxes on his Pocantico Hills estate in one sum...
...League (long with Brooklyn, now St. Louis). She has made as much as $500 a week in exhibition games. Last week she signed to pitch at $1,000 a month for the able, bewhiskered House of David team of Benton Harbor, Mich., which tours the East and Midwest in sum mer, carries a $40,000 lighting rig for night games. Four hours before a scheduled court hearing to determine whether he was too feeble-minded to stand trial, Joseph Wright Harriman, 66-year-old indicted Manhattan banker, disappeared, second time in two months (TIME, May 29). While his wife...