Word: summing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Light & Power, far-flung utility holding company. What actually seems to have transpired was that the Eaton-Otis holdings in this and many another company* sold last week to Continental Shares, Inc., a holding company which Mr. Eaton controls. To accomplish this, Continental Shares Inc., had borrowed a large sum of money, some in Cleveland, more in New York. Since control of Continental Shares is firmly lodged with the Otis-Eaton interests, the deal seemed to have little actual significance except that Mr. Eaton's financial resources are ample...
Nebraska is the second State in which dead bank robbers are worth more than live ones*.Texas bankers go further, offer $5,000 per corpse. This sum has been paid five times in five years. Last April two Negroes were lured into bank robbery at Fort Worth so that four white men might reap $10,000 bounty for killing them...
There is obviously a great deal of value in Miss Joyce's cogent analysis of the situation. As she says: "To sum up, the most important thing in life is good taste." It might be added that if a man shows as good taste in the selection of his clothes as surely Peg O' their hearts has shown in the selection of her husbands, he is, as she so wisely puts it, likely to prove a gentleman in other things...
...Luton, England (where most English straw hats are made), Rev. J. W. Woodhouse set about to raise $5,000 for the building fund of new St. Andrew's Church, which sum would meet the condition of a promise of $25,000. His method: sitting in the porch of the old church until, after three days, parishioners brought him the money...
...fixed sum has been put away for salaries, which will be graded according to a determined percentage. If the concessions earn more than the original sum for salaries, the surplus will be divided up among the workers on the same percentage basis as the salaries...