Word: sums
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...considerable quantities. New York State owns extensive though run-down oil fields in Allegheny and Cattaraugus Counties; it is estimated that the high grade oil obtainable there through the new flooding process will cost only $2 a barrel to extract, and can readily be sold for twice that sum. The State geologists estimate the recoverable oil in these fields as being worth $510 millions, with a possibility of $270 millions profit to the State...
...which is already pledged includes the $5,000,000 given by Mr. George F. Baker of New York City and completing the sum which it was intended to raise for the Business School. In addition, $2,080,000 has been given to the Division of Chemistry and $1,145,000 to the Department of Fine Arts...
...history of the union is brief: A proposal to increase the salaries of post office clerks, carriers and miscellaneous employes was introduced early in the Congressional session. It required some $150,000,000 a year extra expenditure. The bill had large support, but the sum was considered incompatible with government economy. The pay increases were accordingly scaled down until the cost of the bill was about $60,000,000 a year. Then on the floor of the Senate, Mr. Borah proposed an amendment. He argued that in the past it had been political practice, in spite...
...being undergone seems trivial in the extreme. It will make the race of men no happier to know that somewhere in the tangle of tollage that is the Darien peninsula there really is a band of fair haired, thin lipped natives. Science will be little the wiser, and the sum total of human knowledge will not be appreciably increased. The real explanation for this and for all such expeditions is only partly scientific curiosity; it is much more the insatiable longing of a certain type of intellect to penetrate farther into the unknown than any other living being...
...Baker's gift, the second largest lump sum which the University has ever received, is unique in the annals of American education. Never before has a gift even a fraction as large been made to any institution to be used in its work of business training. As far as is known, the donor has not been in Cambridge recently and has never inspected the present facilities of the Business School...