Word: summing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Reduced by 30,000,000 marks per year the total sum budgeted for invalids' and orphans' pensions...
...sum up the United States in two words," declared Premier Benito Mussolini last week to a correspondent of Baron Beaverbrook's enterprising London Daily Express. While the Englishman scribbled, Il Duce continued: "The two words are Prohibition and Lindbergh! . . . Dry America will never find herself. She must go Wet to find herself! In the meantime Europe is drifting toward disaster and Bolshevization...
Under its terms Reconstruction Finance Corp. was authorized to raise an additional $300,000,000 by debentures. This sum was to be lent States, at 3%, on the basis of population to feed the hungry and clothe the naked. States in turn could pass their borrowings along to municipalities to care for local distress. Repayments were provided for by deductions from Federal allowances for highway construction. Typical State allotments for relief: Illinois, $18,645,452; Oregon, $2,330,570; Texas, $14,232,652; Nevada, $222,500. The Wagner bill was forwarded to the House for action...
...House. Above all the President wants R. F. C. to handle all relief loans. Therefore he prefaced last week's statement with a cheery estimate of what R. F. C. had accomplished in the 14 weeks of its existence. Loans authorized totalled about $670,000,000. Of this sum $500,000,000 went to 3,000 banks, mostly in tiny towns, and to 1,000 other financial institutions. Said the President...
...meals per week. In case he exceeds this number, he is charged for the additional meals until his total bill reaches $10.50, the present cost of the 21 meal rate. If his additional meals raise the bill beyond $10.50, the student is not charged more than that sum, his dining hall charge being set as if he had originally signed for this rate...