Word: summing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...spying a sucker, described a margin account, told how he could control 500 shares of the same security with the same money. Wolf saw the larger possibilities and took the broker's advice. Shortly afterward the stock went down; he was called for more margin. Bewildered by the sum required he managed to raise all but $500 by legitimate means. Then came the fatal step. He took one of the hundreds of negotiable bonds passing through his hands every day, presented it to the broker, saved his account. For twelve years he tried to repay that $500, doubling...
...total national wealth of the country is estimated to be in the neighborhood of $360,000,000,000 (1928 figure), of which some $21,691,000,000 is the staggering sum represented by the people's investment in railroads, more than any other classification except real estate. In times past, panics have been caused by overenthusiasm for the carriers and their stocks, but now as in 1921 no such reason for Depression exists. Rail stocks have long since passed their lurid youth...
...present troubles . . . may come forward with a definite construction program on a truly large scale . . . may adopt a well thought out, concrete policy which will start the wheels of industry moving. . . . But the State of New York cannot wait for that. It must itself make available a large sum of public monies to provide work for its residents this winter and, where such work cannot be found, to provide them with food against starvation and with clothing and shelter against suffering. . . . The time for platitudes has passed...
...defied the Committee's demand for an explanation under the Corrupt Practices Act. What Investigator Manly was principally trying to trace through a jungle of bank trans actions was $65,300 contributed by Edwin Cornell Jameson, New York insurance man (TIME, April 28, 1930 et seq.). Of this sum Bishop Cannon had failed to account to Congress for $48,300. Last week the Senate Committee, chairmanned by North Dakota's young, belligerent Nye, met to receive a report from Mr. Manly and hear other witnesses. The Bishop was abroad, visiting Paris and London. He cabled a protest...
...ships, pay I. M. M. the same price. Contracts were drawn up and signed by I. M. M.. but eventually the Shipping Board withdrew. Mr. Franklin's company still owns the ships, now not worth, he said, more than one-fifth to one-tenth the sum...