Word: summing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sum up his week's work President Hoover told the Press "The problem of unemployment and relief, whatever it may be, will be met. With the organized co-operation of local, State and Federal authorities, the problem was successfully handled last winter. We shall adapt organization methods in such manner as may be necessary for the coming winter...
...meeting of United States Steel Corp.'s directorate last week. Solemnly directors looked at the half year's result, a paltry $14,156,412 equal to 17? per share for the common against $6.46 per common share in the same period last year. Almost the entire sum reported for the second quarter was profit on sale of property, operations yielding only 7? a share on preferred stock. Tremendous as is the unappropriated surplus of $465,000,000, directors felt it would be folly to continue $7 dividends equal to $60,000,000 a year...
...Warren F. Draper, Assistant Surgeon General of the U. S. Public Health Service, and on the unanimous recommendation of our State Board of Health I have appointed him. President Hoover has consented to Dr. Draper's acceptance, thus recognizing that the health of the Nation is the sum total of the health of the States. The appointment has brought criticism from partisan sources. But I will not 'play politics' with the public health...
Undersecretary Mills gathered together his fiscal statistics, added, subtracted, arrived at his totals. He found that the 1931 deficit was $903,000,000. The Government had had to go out and borrow $616,000,000 to keep functioning during the year and this sum was therefore added to the public debt. Every source of revenue had been affected by the drying-up process of hard times whereas expenditures had climbed to a new peacetime record. Mr. Mills's figures produced the following tables...
...made quite a fuss about it, sought a writ to prevent the Graf from sailing with- out him, finally sued for $100,000. The case was settled out of court, and no announcement made. But Mr. Hillig allowed his friends to believe that he collected $25,000, a sum which he later spent in having the Bellanca built. A different story is told by Pilot Hoiriis: that he proposed the flight to Mr. Hillig last autumn, and that Mr; Hillig then undertook to raise the money...