Word: summing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Siamese courtiers swear that King Prajadhipok. when consulted by his puzzled treasurer, ordered promptly sent to modest Dr. Wheeler a check for $250,000-which to Siamese meant the staggering sum of 587,000 bahts...
...make large loans brings it security business. Its prestige brings it the cream of financial business. Having the cream, its prestige and influence increases, etc. and though it cannot control the capital market, it at least has the front or inside seat. The whole is greater than the sum of the parts, and the whole is responsible for Morgan & Co.'s profits...
...home, Mackay-Postal was bravely bucking the competition of Western Union but could show no profit. Mr. Behn, who had watched I. T. & T.'s profits climb in six years from $1,930,000 to $17,732,000, now saw them tumble to less than half that sum, and finally sink out of sight into the bog of a three-million-dollar deficit. Gone were the days when an excited public was eager to pay $149 for I. T. & T. stock earning $3 a share. The stock earned nothing, sold...
...collection of gasoline, oil and automobile taxes. The State's revenue from these sources has averaged over $9,000,000 a year, was $7,395,000 even in 1932. After devoting about $4,000,000 a year to debt service on these bonds there was still a considerable sum left over which the State gave to its road districts to help them pay off bonds they had issued...
...months. He has seen R. F. C. loan resources rise to $3,500,000,000, plus $300,000,000 for state jobless relief. In 15 months he has helped to pass out $2.260,021,958 to banks, railroads, insurance companies, building & loan associations, farmers and the like. Of this sum $464,753.681 had been repaid up to April 22. As Chairman Jones took command, the four-man R. F. C.'s lending power was still about $1,704,000,000. Of late the R. F. C. has suffered due to lack of aggressive leadership and clear-cut purpose within...