Word: sums
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...This system was originally accepted in the bituminous industry in the hope that it would tend to lessen strikes and breaches of agreement. The result has been just the opposite. . . . Under the check-off the United Mine Workers raise every year more than $17,000,000. From this huge sum they paid the expenses of the armed invasion of West Virginia in 1921. ... By it (the checkoff) they recently raised $900,-000 in Illinois to defeat justice against the Herrin murderers...
Markov claims that the book will show serious complicity on the part of the old Russian regime in bringing on the World War. A Monaco Court will decide whether Markov is guilty of extortionate demands in asking this sum from the daughter of Alexander's favorite...
...pictures in the collection of Sir Joseph Robinson, millionaire mine operator of South Africa, brought $938,178 at Christie's - the largest sum ever realized in a single day's sale at the famous old London firm. The top price of $88,920 was fetched by Frans Hals' Portrait of a Gentleman, 19 times what it cost in 1885 when it left the de Zoete collection. The Hals is 45¼ by 35¼ inches, and shows a noble standing figure with pointed beard, ruff, black costume and hat, yellow gloves. None of the pictures are likely...
Railroads? In 1920 Mr. Ford paid $385,000 for the control of the Detroit, Toledo and Ironton Railroad, and financiers said he was paying just exactly that sum for "worthless paper." The gross income for the first five months of 1923 is stated as being $4,156,877, which is more than the D. T. & I. took in during any of the full years 1916 to 1919. And the annual earnings for the road this year are figured at $1,530,000, which, allowing for all taxes, should give a net income of over...
...This sum is to be used by Greece for settling refugees from Asia Minor on farm lands in Macedonia and elsewhere in Greece. The Greek Government will pledge the customs and tobacco revenue of the country as security...