Word: sums
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...from taxation, railway earnings and industrial debentures. Payments to be fixed on a sliding scale, starting with $250,000,000 (cash and deliveries in kind) and rising to a standard payment of $625,000,000-. A system of supplementary payments, based on an "index of prosperity," to augment the sum of $312,500,000 for the financial years of 1929-30 to 1933-34; thereafter the supplementary payment shall be added to the standard payment...
...thereafter, let the campaign funds of the several parties be furnished by the Federal Treasury- the total sum to be 10? per voter, apportioned according to the last recorded strength of each party. Thus can all parties be protected from obligating themselves to the "predatory interests...
...rush of buyers to cover a shortage, following the operation of one bank, Lazard Frères, in throwing ?3,000,000 on the Paris Bourse in one day. But the psychological effect of Morgan's thundering loan was decisive. It was never expected that the full sum would be used. A large portion of the loan was used, approximately $33,000,000, nearly all of which has been repaid. When the devil was sick...
...Famous Players-Lasky Corporation has evidently believed in the commercial value of the Ten Commandments. It spent almost $2,000,000 in making this great feature film-the largest sum ever spent in producing a cinema. Its excessive costliness was one of the reasons for the company's capital difficulties last Fall and Winter, and upon its returns will largely depend much of its success this year. The company believes that the picture will prove very profitable, but that the full returns from it will not be obtained for two or three years. Inventories of the company increased from...
...Detroit and as a shipper of manufactured products out of Detroit. In brief, the one important factor in the increased traffic of the Detroit, Toledo & Ironton since 1920 has been the tonnage diverted to it by the Ford Motor Co., which might otherwise have gone by alternate routes. . . . To sum up, no useful generalization concerning common carriers can be obtained from the records of plant facility railroads. But Henry Ford, the railway president, deals only with Henry Ford, the automobile manufacturer, and 'the service he renders to himself satisfies him perfectly...