Word: summing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...plant at Riga, Latvia. He was said to have bribed the Chairman of the Soviet Meat Trust, Professor Alexander Riazanzev, to "disorganize the Soviet food distribution system and promote wholesale famine in Russia." Some Soviet papers said the Meat Chairman had taken a $50,000 bribe, others raised the sum...
...Poor Year For Wobblers." Last week the primaries were all over. Congressional nominees were bracing themselves for the November election. Claims of Wet gains in Congress filled the air. The Association Against the Prohibition Amendment reported that it had spent the whacking sum of $385,392 in the first five months of this year, was prepared to make a million-dollar outlay in its 1930 campaign to foster the movement for a Change. The Anti-Saloon League, taking the defensive, declared: "The Wets have forced the issue [now] more clearly drawn than at any time since the coming of Prohibition...
Fortnight ago appeared the six-month statement of Curtiss-Wright Corp. showing loss of $5,560,410.11. As in the case of Avco, about one-third of the sum was accounted for by extraordinary charges for development engineering, inventory adjustments, etc.: $2,031,307.55. Board Chairman Richard F. Hoyt was optimistic...
During the course of the proceedings it was learned for the first time the full amount of the cost of erecting and refitting the buildings necessary for the completion of the seven House Units will be met by Mr. Harkness. It had been understood previously that a definite sum, somewhat over $12,000,000 had been promised by Mr. Harkness and that any amount over and above would have to be met out of University funds. A rough estimate of the final cost was given...
Enough Wheat. Head of B. A. A. S. for 1930 was dignified Frederick Orpen Bower, 74, Regius professor of botany in the University of Glasgow. Contrary to the custom of B. A. A. S. presidents whose addresses usually last long enough to sum up the entire scientific field, Professor Bower limited his inaugural address to a review of the last 30 years' work in botany. Sir William Crookes (radiometer, Crookes' tube) told a meeting of the British Scientific Association in 1898 that, taking into consideration acre yield and population growth, wheat would be scarce enough in 30 years...