Word: sums
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...failures have become common, the number mounting into the hundreds in Minnesota alone. I am familiar with homes where after a lifetime of hard work, people are forced to live on the small allowance available from the poor fund. I know mothers who are supporting several children on a sum of $15 or $20 a month from the same fund. I know how they are housed and clothed and what rents they pay, but imagination balks when confronted with how they keep warm and what they...
Final figures of the appropriations made by Congress in the short session closed last fortnight, reach the sum of $4,633,000,000. Never since the Budget Bureau was set up were its recommendations so far exceeded by appropriations-an excess of some six and a half million dollars. In the previous session of the 70th Congress $4,628,000,000 was appropriated. Total appropriations by the last three Congresses are as follows: 68th Congress (1923-25)-$7,935,000,000 69th Congress (1925-27)-$8,620,000,000 70th Congress...
...cost of the portion of the improvements to be built in the next four years is estimated to be about $4,250,000. Of this sum Mrs. J. J. Storrow's gift will pay $1,000,000, the state highway fund $850,000., Boston $150,000., as its share of an overpass from Commonwealth Ave, at St. Paul St. to the Basin drive, and Cambridge $160,000 as, its share of the underpass for Memorial Drive at Massachusetts Ave. The balance of the cost, estimated at about $2,100,000, would be paid by the cities and towns...
...preferred "A" certificates to be issued in an amount representing a sum for which Germany would be unconditionally liable. Next, the "B" certificates to represent what the creditor Powers expect to obtain directly from Germany in cash transfers. Finally, the "C" certificates to cover what the Powers expect to obtain in kind, that is, in transfers of raw materials...
...amiable and popular Archbishop of Paris, they found him in the best possible humor. He had just carried to Pope Pius XI, he said, a check for a half-million francs ($19,500). At first the Holy Father would not take it, but Cardinal Dubois gently proffered the sum a second time, and finally Pope Pius turned the check over to the Papal treasury, with instructions that it be used to relieve Catholic priests in Mexico, many of whom are homeless and impoverished due to the suppressive measures of Mexican President Emilio Fortes Gil (TIME, March 4 et ante...