Word: summing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Soon the Associated Press rumored exclusively that the "Big Five" were thinking of offering to settle with the U. S. on the basis of a lump sum payment of between $1,250,000,000 and $2,000,000,000. Next day British editors called so big a lump "over-optimistic." In Washington Democrat Rainey bristled: "I think I can say that Congress will not approve such a reduction...
...Franklin Delano Roosevelt's approval, Sir Ronald tucked into his briefcase an assortment of new British plans, one reputedly a "lump sum" offer, sailed on the S. S. Majestic "with full instructions...
...Allies $700,000,000. This, plus $400,000,000 owed by France on her purchase of U. S. War stocks, totals $1,100,000.000. Last week London financiers threw in another $400,000,000 for good measure, took the grand total $1,500.000,000 as their "lump sum." The U. S. they opined (and in some cases wagered) will not collect more than that from all the Allied Powers. Any Anglo-U. S. settlement, they thought, will have to be made provisional until France comes to debt terms with...
...they had advanced to two billions, and now they are somewhere between three and four billions . . . something close to $100 [a pupil a year]. ... If, as Admiral Byrd was lately saying, the total cost of government in the United States, Federal, State and local, reached the fabulous sum of $14,000,000,000 last year, then the gogues actually made off with nearly a fourth...
Chief function of Realty Stabilization Corp. will be to direct the refinancing of matured mortgages on the basis of present property valuations. The difference between this sum and the face value of the mortgages the corporation will supply from R. F. C. funds, the R. F. C. getting, in effect, second mortgages...