Word: summing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Sum Total Forces!" At Rome the Cabinet in which Benito Mussolini holds eight portfolios met in frowning Palazzo Viminale and a communiqué was issued which was in fact the Dictator's answer to Geneva. "The Hoare and Laval speeches," declared Premier Mussolini's communiqué, "could not be different from what they were because of the English and French positions with regard to the League Covenant. For this reason they have been received with the greatest calm by responsible Italian circles and by the masses of the people." (Actually Italians who anxiously snatched up newspapers last week were visibly perturbed...
Hallowed by at least four generations of profitable practice is the underwriting of big bond issues. Advantage to the borrowing corporation is the fact that it gets its money in a lump sum on a definite date irrespective of current market conditions. And the "spread" between the price the corporation receives for its bonds and the price the public pays is supposed to compensate the banker not only for his time & trouble but also for his risks...
...save money and it has been necessary to place part of the sports on an informal basis. At present polo, rugby and golf are in this position which means that they are provided with university facilities as much as possible and the H. A. A. contributes a small sum for coaching expenses, but the burden equipment and transportation falls upon the shoulders of the participants
Such was the law about which the citizens of West Amwell Township complained. To enforce it Mr. Hutson was to have had an initial appropriation of $5,000,000, no great sum in view of the fact that the number of potential potato leggers far exceeds the number of potential liquor leggers under Prohibition. But as a further handicap the appropriation for enforcement failed of enactment with the Third Deficiency Bill. One private consolation Mr. Hutson had: the Supreme Court would probably declare Potato Control unconstitutional since the whole scheme depends on a confiscatory "tax" which makes no pretense...
...This public loss left the Treasury with a public gain of 3,500,000,000 francs ($118,000,000) in the value of its gold stocks. Designating this last week as "profit," Premier-Professor van Zeeland ordered Minister of Public Works Henri de Man to spend the entire sum during the next three years on making work for Belgium's jobless...