Word: summing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...left. Behind her stood the Rt. Hon. Arthur Meighen, last-minute choice of Conservative Prime Minister Richard Bedford Bennett for Government leader. On either side in full regalia stood representatives of the church and diplomatic corps, white-wigged Supreme Court. Black Rod (Parliamentary usher) left to sum mon the Commons, banged thrice on their door, bowed thrice when he entered, thrice when he left. The Governor General cleared his throat, read a short Speech from the Throne. As His Majesty's representative, Lord Bessborough...
Whether or not a bigger & better war would, in the sum total, aid or harm U. S. business, it would be certain to bring about many an unexpected trade stimulus, many a sudden stoppage. Much of what would be destroyed would be rebuilt. Thus last week officers of the demolished Commercial Press, Shanghai, one of the largest and most remarkable shops in the world, employing 14,000 men, were planning to buy new equipment in the U. S., a fat order for hungry manufacturers. But only a mighty war would be likely to benefit the "war babies" of 1915: steels...
...that the Piatiletka lagged in 1931. Transport, steel, iron, coal, the general productivity of Russian labor all failed to fulfill schedules. To make up for lost time Russia will spend this year 21 billion rubles ($10,700,000,000), nearly one-third more than in 1931. Half of this sum will be spent for industrial development. For agriculture 4,400,000,000 rubles (21% more than in 1931) is provided. For transportation there will be 3,300,000,000 rubles (22.4% increase). To fulfill its coal schedule Russia must produce 90 million tons, 31,400,000 more tons than last...
...Last autumn the Cubs traded squatty Wilson to the St. Louis Cardinals for Pitcher Burleigh Grimes and minor considerations. The Cardinals offered to pay him $7,500 for 1932. When Wilson said he wanted more, the Cardinals last week arranged a deal whereby they acquired an unspecified sum of money and a rookie outfielder while the Brooklyn Robins acquired recalcitrant Wilson and the problem of how much...
...Vienna, went to Switzerland, then to Paris where, after two years of successful practice, he offered his services to Louis XVI. But, as with other salvagers, it took bullion-room gold to keep him dredging up wrecks. He told the king "for the purposes I have in mind, the sum of four or five hundred thousand francs is neither here nor there. My discoveries and myself must be endowed with a generous hand. . . ." Parsimonious Louis declined, whereupon the money was raised for Mesmer by private subscription. Mesmeromania became the rage. He continued practicing, though without official recognition, until the French...