Word: summing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Harvard and Yale ended their respective and respectable track season on Saturday in a blaze of mixed glory, by defeating a redoubtable Oxford and Cambridge outfit. So meagre was the American margin of victory that the sum of the meet was in the nature of an upset, an upset for the expectation of the press which backed the home team to win things easily on Soldier's Field. For it was only in the last two events that the strong English invasion was turned back, and a deadlock achieved in the number of first places scored, six for each side...
...shares of Woolworth common stock. Trustees have traded it back and forth, sold large blocks of it. Financial sleuths estimate her fortune as of 1933 may have dropped to a market value of $20,000,000, of which the income might be $1,000,000 before taxes, a tidy sum but not to be compared with the inheritance of Heiress Doris Duke ($53,000,000), still fair game for the rest of Russia's aristocracy...
...Siam's erstwhile was replaced in 1928 by her silver baht of one hundred satangs. Nickel & bronze satang pieces are legal tender only up to one baht, above which sum debtors must pay silver...
...month ago the New York Stock Exchange discovered that of the $92,000,000, "U. S. Government and other marketable securities," which Allied Chemical & Dye put down in a lump sum among "current" assets on its balance sheet, the largest part consisted of the company's own stock. Forthwith the Exchange ordered Allied stock be stricken from trading on Aug. 23, if in the meantime Allied did not give its stockholders more & better information. A grave defeat was this for Orlando Franklin Weber, autocrat of Allied, who for a full year had urbanely held the Exchange's Listing...
...collect a long-standing debt to the firm. Havana suited him. and he fell in love again, but business once more tore him away, this time to Africa, where he spent long years as master of the slave-trading station of Gallegos. When he had amassed a tidy sum he sold out, went back to Europe to enjoy his wealth...