Word: summing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Brooklyn, where she was appearing at the Paramount Theatre, famed Fan Dancer Sally Rand revealed that she had been offered "a big sum" to indorse nudism. Said she: "The offer shocked me. I knew that if I endorsed it, a lot of fat old men would join the cult just to see me without fans. It made me sick that my lovely dance should be confused with such things. All the nudists I ever saw had scratches all over their rear ends where they had been sitting on thorns...
Instead, the road asked its bondholders for a one-year moratorium. All interest due this year would be paid in a lump sum in 1937. The junior creditors have already agreed to a moratorium provided holders of 75% of the first mortgage bonds also waive their claims. In a joint statement Chairman Thomas Milton Schumacher and President Charles Elsey held forth this hope: "The traffic of the railroad has shown progressive improvement for the past six months, and the management believes that if the holders of the funded debt cooperate . . . the company will be able to meet its other obligations...
...doubt one basic principle of economic law, it is that living standards cannot be abruptly reduced to square with the amount of purchasing power available. To put it another way, if there is only $40,000,000,000 worth of domestic trade, the wages that come out of that sum may be enough to pass around so that every individual gets enough to live on. But it makes no provision for payment of mortgage interest on one's home or for other debts, and, carried to its logical conclusion, makes everybody come down to the standard of living...
...employes should be kept on short pay when the Government is spending billions directly to raise the pay of other workers, came forward with an amendment that would restore the full pay cut on July 1. The total cost of his project was $63,000,000 additional - a small sum compared to the cost of the whole recovery program. Shipstead, the Farmer-Laborite, 27 of the 35 Republicans, and 12 other Democrats swung in behind him. The McCarran amendment carried 41 to 40. The Administration forces realized they had suffered a serious defeat. If the House, which passed the same...
...aggressive Harvard basketball team, showing considerable power, and rallying strongly in every emergency, snapped its losing streak by decisively defeating a speedy Brown quintet, 39 to 25, at Providence Saturday night. The game was characterized by wild passing and frequent fouls, with Harvard capitalizing on free throws to the sum of 11 points...