Word: sums
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...steel products, $464,955,000 was spent, of which $383,990,000 went for iron and steel castings and $80,965,000 for steel rails. Purchases of copper, zinc, lead, etc., came to $57,245,000; lubricating oil and grease, $15,678,000; and cement $6,120,000. The sum of $344,394,000 was spent for miscellaneous materials, including ballast, groceries, meat, canned goods, brooms, matches, pencils, typewriters and various supplies...
Most ef the total sum of $1,783,703,000 spent, Mr. Aishton declared, went into operation and maintenance of the railroads, and only a small part into capital expenditures for equipment and other additional facilities...
...appropriated for, be commenced. These included work preliminary to payment of the soldier bonus, increased salaries for government "field workers" under the Reclassification of Salaries Act, increased salaries for firemen and policemen of the District of Columbia. The expense was to come out of lump sum appropriations for the fiscal year 1924-25. This practice would later result in a deficit, but Congress would be able to provide the necessary funds in December. It seemed, however, that no method could be found to refund to income tax payers, who had paid their entire tax in March, their 25% rebate...
...clear sign of their good-will toward those who were insured against the ordinary risk of fire, and of sympathy for those who suffered losses, have decided to return to the insurees a full year's premium. This payment will, in the aggregate, represent a very substantial sum. The form which the return of the premiums will take will probably be that of willingness to cancel the payments due on the policies affected...
...first exhibition held by rising artists of the very-much-younger generation closed successfully with $25 assets. The sons and daughters of the New York artist colony at Wood-stock-in-Catskills decided to rent a gallery, hand in their own original work and charge admission, the sum cleared to go toward a new school building. "I don't s'pose we'd have done it if we'd known what a job it was going to be," said the 10-year-old President. There were some hundreds of examples, largely pen and pencil, of surrounding...