Word: summing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Bank of England, now being splendidly rebuilt on its old site while business goes on as usual. Bus drivers and bankers, typists and tycoons thrilled at the knowledge that on this day "The Old Lady of Threadneedle Street" was dipping into her chilled steel purse for the largest lump sum she had ever paid in gold in a single day, $95,550,000 worth, weighing about 150 tons and consisting of 11,500 bars...
Chancellor Chamberlain showed himself a true John Bull of the old school when he said quietly that Britain's payment would be made even though it would unbalance the Budget by a sum equal or superior to that paid...
...Default by the British Government on a sum it could not truthfully say it was unable to pay," icily observed Mr. Chamberlain, "would have resounded all round the world and might have given justification for other debtors to follow that example...
...Edouard Herriot fought a brilliant Chamber battle, urging payment on grounds of expediency & honor, he revealed his personal feelings in these words which drew loudest Chamber cheers: "It was the intervention of President Hoover which destroyed everything and reopened everything! The Hoover Moratorium cost France far more than the sum we are discussing now. It cost us our title to Reparations...
...large, and those not familiar with the number competing may well wonder if the $900,000 on the expense side of our ledger can be wisely expended on athletics. Although money paid out by the Athletic Association reaches this large total of $900,000, several major items in this sum cannot be regarded as expenses. Many items of outgo are offset by much larger items on the side of income, and without such expenses there would be either no income or less profit. For guarantees to visiting teams we pay $284,008.98, but teams would not travel from New Haven...