Word: summing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fashion for German statesmen to paint their country as poor, to picture their businessmen as pressed for cash, dependent on foreign loans. With blazing frankness Herr Stegerwald revealed that today the German moneyed class have on loan abroad more than eight billion marks ($2,000,000,000). This sum would suffice to meet Germany's "crushing payments" under the Young Plan for four years...
Going even further the Minister of Labor pointed out that eight billion marks also represents approximately the sum which U. S. citizens now have tied up in German investments. "If our investment field is good enough for American capitalists," said he in effect to German capitalists, "it should be good enough...
...series of automatic dials the machine shows the total of bets on each horse up to the moment of starting and the grand total of bets. On the basis of these totals the totalizator automatically sets the odds. In "tote" or pari mutuel betting a percentage of the whole sum wagered is deducted as a fee. What remains is divided between those who have wagered on the winner. If only one person has bet on the first horse he gets it all. If 1,000 have backed the winner the winnings are split 1,000 ways...
Again last week the ready sympathy of highly placed Norwegians for wronged women was proved at Oslo. By special act of the Storting (Parliament) a sum of money "sufficient to assist Fru Amanda Anderson in her present difficulties" was placed at her disposal by the Statskassen (Treasury...
Since his entry into the realm of light and "situation" comedy Mr. Dix is a much improved actor over the Dix of racing car melodramas. Tinged with a bit of Shavian deviltry the play depicts the plight of an electrician who for the sum of a few thousand dollars is willing to lower himself and become a gentleman. For some reason, and, she is fairly pleasant, he gets all mixed up in his singleness of purpose. The story ends happily, with Mr. Dix still an electrician. The picture is an amusing satire on the Ward McAllister type...