Word: summing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...adverse balance of trade, poor crops demanding unusually large outside purchases, huge temporary investments by outsiders in francs, have convinced the Bank of France that it will soon start losing golda not unwelcome event since France's gold now totals the record sum of $2,656,000,000. But in last week's declining franc and rising dollar bankers were prone to see primarily a reversal of the situation which recently caused the great drain on U. S. gold. After England suspended gold payments (Sept. 21), the U. S. lost $730,000,000 in six weeks, heaviest gold...
...former years it has always been customary for Phillips Brooks House to receive a lump sum of $4000 with which to carry out its charitable activities...
...collection for the unemployed made at the Yale-Harvard football game totalled $13,224.73, bringing the total for the collections which have been made at the last three games on Harvard's schedule to $26,088.43, it was announced yesterday. The sum taken in at the Dartmouth game was $5,918. 32, and at the Holy Cross game...
Until the budget is made up no plans will be forthcoming for cooperation with the Cambridge Unemployment Relief Committee or any other such body. A lump sum of $500 has been turned over to that committee by the Student Council at M. I. T. but final distribution of the money available for the Harvard Council in contingent upon action to be taken by President Lowell in regard to the Stadium collections...
First tried out in 1888 by some British periodicals (Titbits; Answer) as insurance on their subscribers, the idea has spread to retail stores. Every customer who shops in certain stores has his life automatically insured. In case of his death his heirs receive a sum in direct proportion to the money he spent in the store during the past year. Relatives of a bachelor receive up to $250, married customers get special benefits. Premiums on the insurance are paid by the storekeeper to the insurance company at the rate of about 2? per $5 of customers' purchases...