Word: summing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...nature. . . . Ten years will see the start of this new generation. We can move swiftly after that. Why, today we think little of spending $700,000,000 annually on our two great arms of defense-yet it is with difficulty that we vote a twentieth part of that sum towards national health and national education. Somehow it is hard to 'sell' an intangible thing like protection of children, yet we 'buy' a $17,000,000 cruiser without raising an eyebrow...
Mostly by proxy, in many cases by person, last week stockholders of national banks attended their annual meetings. Most significant meeting of all was that of the biggest bank, Chase National. Proudly, stockholders heard that their institute's resources now total $2,697,000,000, the largest sum ever attained by a bank and $753,000,000 ahead of the nearest U. S. competitor, National City Bank. Befitting the meeting of the biggest bank, the No. 1 U. S. Banker, Albert Henry Wiggin, addressed stockholders on problems other than those pertinent to Chase alone...
...first consisted of a donation amounting to $30,000 to be used in the purchase of current modern poetry of American authorship, together with the outfitting of a small room in the main building for the exhibition and study of the same. The second gift consisted of a substantial sum of money the annual interest from which was to be used to cover the honoraria for lecturers who were to be invited to give talks several times a year on the general subject of American poetry...
They estimated that the "Fascist scare" drove this sum out of Germany, and that it has not returned. Short-term foreign credits have been withdrawn. Germans themselves have sent their capital abroad...
...winners of the finals of this competition, which has continued throughout the last three years, will receive a sum of money and the honor of having their names and that of their club engraved on a permanent tablet kept at the School...