Word: summing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Farm Board has attempted to stabilize grains and cotton. The great Japanese surplus of 108,000 bales (14,144,000 Ib.) which has overhung the world's silk markets for many months was sold to E. Gerli & Co., Manhattan silk commission merchants, for $16,320,000, a sum which will come in handy for the war-worried Japanese Government. The price came to $150 a bale against an open market price of $178 for "crack double extra" (basic grade) silk on the National Raw Silk Exchange. E. Gerli & Co. have a year in which to distribute the silk. They expect...
...should decide to borrow $240,000.000 and spend this sum to make jobs for the jobless, Washington would be doing proportionately the very thing that Melbourne did last week. Significantly it was not an Australian radical who proposed to borrow $2 per capita of Australia's population to make jobs. Instead the plan was unfolded at Melbourne to a Commonwealth Conference of State Premiers by Australia's new Roman Catholic and comparatively conservative Federal Premier, Joseph Aloysius Lyons, father of nine, famed "Man from Tasmania...
Still in the Glass bill was a special corporation to assist in liquidating closed banks but with capital reduced from $200,000,000 to $125,000,000. This sum would be raised in part by contributions of ¼% of total deposits by member banks of the Federal Reserve...
...most recent aftermath of the riot is the appearance of three amateur snapshots of the melee on the bulletin board in the Union, copies of which are offered for sale. Interested persons are requested to subscribe the sum of $.20 for each picture, and to collect all purchases in Holworthy 12. The photographer has chosen for his subjects the arrival of the fire department on the scene, the abuse of an automobile by the crowd, and the forcible removal of one of the rioters by Major Charles R. Apted '06. Owing to the necessity for time exposures the pictures...
...France, cafe accounting is done by the printed prices of drinks on the saucers in which the drinks are served. The sum total of his saucer pile is the imbiber's bill...