Word: summing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...three for $7,500). All in one batch, for $11,000. the Society bought from an Australian zoo 1,200 birds, 300 reptiles, and 200 mammals, mostly kangaroos. From Minneapolis for $250 the zoo got Mrs. Grace Olive Wiley's famed collection of snakes, and for an unnamed sum Mrs. Wiley herself to take care of them and the rest of its reptiles. Only person ever to breed rattlesnakes in captivity, Mrs. Wiley finds her charges "simply adorable," likes to sit sewing with a rattlesnake coiled in her lap "like a contented...
...adopted a resolution against the proposed amendments on the grounds that: 1) newsboys "are not in any sense of the word engaged in Child Labor"; 2 ) the proposals would upset delivery systems and throw needy boys out of work; 3) the badge license idea would cost taxpayers a great sum, might develop into "a legal machine devoid of human kindness, causing hundreds of unnecessary arrests." Backing up A. N. P. A. was the International Circulation Managers Association which met in Manhattan this week just before the hearing. Boldest opponent of the proposed changes was Publisher Jerome D. Barnum...
...hundred million drachmas ($5,700,-000) is a lot of money to Greeks. To get it from the Chamber of Deputies and "to spend this huge but necessary sum for munitions" was the program last week of gruff General George Kondylis, Minister of War. With a pack of Deputies who would stop at nothing to back him up. Genera! Kondylis strutted into the hall and Zing!-a chair hurtled clear across the Chamber at Alexander Papanastasiou, leader of the Opposition. M. Papanastasiou, an artful dodger, was not hurt until he threw the chair back at the Government with such violence...
...remaining 68 horses entered get $2.600 each on a $2.50 investment. A person holding a ticket on Colombo last week could keep it on the chance that Colombo would win the top prize for him or he could sell it. in full or in part, for a sum based on the bookmaker's odds against Colombo's winning...
...clerk misdated it. Best known of Painter Trumbull's works are his four big panels (The Declaration of Independence, The Surrender of Burgoyne, The Surrender of Cornwallis, The Resignation of General Washington) in the rotunda of the U. S. Capitol for which the Government paid him the generous sum of $32,000. Most striking in the gallery of early Americans was a dynamic Head of Lafayette by Inventor-Painter Samuel Finley Breese Morse...