Word: summing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Steel Institute estimated that the total for 1938 will be only $165,000,000. This figure seemed small when U. S. Steel Corp. last week announced that it was borrowing $50,000,000 in cash from ten New York, Pittsburgh and Chicago banks for construction purposes. But this fat sum was only to complete expansion already under way. The first new financing by "Big Steel" since 1929, it was made necessary by heavy payments for arrearage on preferred stock last year and by the obligation imposed by the undistributed profits tax to distribute most of Big Steel...
...trifling percentage of the money. The amount donated by employees and the University staff is indefinite. Also indefinite are the methods by which the money has been collected from the employees and staff; but this is not the question in point. The fact is that most of the sum has come from the Faculty. Although a large number of Faculty members live in Cambridge and although by contributing to the drive they aid Boston charities which will benefit Cambridge, yet it would seem that they have more intimate connections with the University. The Faculty might divert part...
...entirely private. But various Government farm agencies immediately began to lend it money. When it was reorganized in 1936 there were $14,000.000 worth of Government loans to be canceled. It was then lent $7,500,000 more by the Farm Credit Administration. It was supposed to repay this sum by an assessment on every bushel of grain it sold for its members. The members objected...
Taxes, "In relation to tax changes, three things should be kept in mind. First, the total sum to be derived by the Federal Treasury must not be decreased. . . . Second, abuses by individuals or corporations designed to escape tax-paying by using various methods of doing business, corporate and otherwise-abuses which we have sought, with great success, to end- must not be restored. Third, we should rightly change certain provisions where they are proven to work definite hardship, especially on the small businessmen of the nation...
Such funds are appropriated by most European governments, but Farouk was suspicious that the money was intended for the coffers of Premier Nahas' Wafdist & Blueshirt organizations. Again Farouk balked. Adviser Maher acted for him, accepted a compromise sum of $70,000. Then the King tried his hand with an ultimatum. Anxious to get rid of the armed Blueshirts. Farouk gave his Cabinet an overnight choice: dissolve the organization or hand in their resignations as Ministers. At the last minute, Premier Nahas came forward with a compromise...