Word: summing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...bill carries the largest lump sum appropriation in the world's history...
...would profit in direct ratio to the spendings of Legionaries in their States. The mathematical argument for the Bonus is less simple. In 1924 Congress figured that veterans were entitled to $1 a day extra for service in the U. S., $1.25 overseas. Then Congress pretended that the whole sum had been set aside and invested as an endowment insurance policy to mature in 20 years. Thus with interest at 4% the sum was doubled by maturity. To this total for each veteran was then added 25%, for no stated reason, and in this amount adjusted service certificates were issued...
...York liquor syndicate. Waived, therefore, was Canada's claim for $386,803.18 damages for ship & cargo. But the deliberate sinking of the ship had been justified neither by treaty nor international law. Therefore the U. S. Government should pay the ship's captain & crew sums totaling $25,666.50. To the Canadian Government it should deliver a confession of guilt, an apology, and, "as a material amend in respect of the wrong," the sum...
...salaries to 860 neutral poll watchers who were paid about $65 each for their services on the voting day, cheap at the price since they included 360 stolid, super-meticulous Dutch burgomasters. The troops supplied by Britain, Italy, The Netherlands and Sweden charged for their services only a sum representing the difference between what it would have cost to maintain them at home and the cost of transporting them to the Saar, maintaining them there...
That evening at 7 o'clock the long table in Palazzo Venezia was piled with pacts and protocols. All were signed with celerity by Mussolini and Laval, after which correspondents spent a frantic evening cabling summaries. In sum France and Italy agreed: 1) that Italy will receive some 58,000 sq. mi. of French African territory, also a share in the French-controlled strategic railway which dominates Abyssinia, and an outlet providing Italy with a port on the Gulf of Aden; 2) that Italy will aid France toward bringing Germany to a reasonable stabilization of her armaments...