Word: summing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...been necessary to place part of the sports on an informal basis. At present polo, rugby, yachting, skiing, rifle, 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 expense, but the burden of equipment and transportation falls upon the shoulders of the participants
Even prouder was Merchant Kress last week to know that his name was on the tongue of the entire art world. One purchase of $250,000 had lifted his little known collection of Italian paintings to front-rank eminence. For that sum Mr. Kress had just bought from Clarence Hungerford Mackay one of the four paintings by Duccio di Buoninsegna in the U. S. Art dealers throughout the country agreed that the 5-10-25? storeman had got a bargain...
Efforts by Rome correspondents to simplify the situation led to a round of rumors that "Mussolini's war is likely to cost ten billion lire" ($825,000,000). This "inside figure" was based on nothing more profound than multiplying by the extremely convenient figure ten the sum II Duce says he has already spent on belligerent preparations, namely one billion lire ($82,500,000). The budget of Italy has not balanced throughout Depression, and the public debt, which stood at 97 billions ($8,002,500,000) two years ago, has now topped 105 billions...
...question while Chairman Black was already asking another. That, however, was the only trouble the cool little utilitarian had with his answers. Freely he testified that up to June 30 the Power lobby had spent $301,365 on its fight against the Public Utility Bill. Half of this sum had been donated by holding companies, half by Edison Electric Institute. Two Manhattan law firms were paid $75,000 each. The famed publicity firm of Ivy Lee & T. J. Ross received $5,000 per month, plus traveling expenses. Mr. Gadsden himself, with a salary of $30,000 per year from...
...about to hand him 63,000 acres in eight districts of Austria, real estate in Vienna which in normal times yielded some $50,000 a year, the Mannersdorf Dairies which sell 4˝ million litres of milk annually, a list of other Habsburg property which grew daily, and a lump sum indemnity of $10,000,000 for destroyed or confiscated property which the Government was sorry not to be able to return...