Word: summing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Year ago public sensibilities were shocked when the company offered to parcel out among all claimants the sum of $20,000. According to the terms of the passenger contracts, of which many a victim remained unaware, claims were invalid unless entered within 30 days...
...Attorney General of New York, President Gay got his first taste of stern public criticism. Walter P. McCaffray & Co. got into trouble in an effort to bolster an affiliated concern called German American Securities Co. Inc. by lending it some $100,000 last summer. To raise part of that sum Walter P. McCaffray & Co. borrowed too freely upon its customers' securities. Meantime, according to the prosecuting attorney, German American was doing some highly irregular bookkeeping...
Sole news of the President which reached the waiting world were the brief bulletins flashed to shore, first by the destroyers Monaghan and Dale acting as convoys, later by the Potomac. Sole piscatorial feat was credited to "Uncle Fred." Sum total of the world's knowledge of Franklin Roosevelt...
Cost for the first plane, due next spring, is $500,000, for subsequent ships $250,000. By shouldering this sum jointly, the "Big Five" claim they are saving three-quarters of development expense. By creating such a fleet of supertransports, they expect to jack their passenger and express business into the black, rid themselves forever of the inconvenience of their present dependence upon Government mail subsidies...
24th. Comes--to the Tower very betimes to wake me, and I not too glad to see him for he has wagered me a fine little sum that he can rise, run a mile and get me up before 7 for 33 consecutive mornings...