Word: sums
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Fund. Though this huge sum will not have to be budgeted until 1929, a fund from which it may be drawn was proposed, last week, by Chancellor Churchill as a feature of his new Budget. He destined for this fiscal nest egg the budgetary surplus for the year just past, amounting to ?4,250,000. Further to swell the fund, Mr. Churchill established last week, to take effect at once, an increased tax of four pence per gallon on automotive gasoline and oils-a tax which he declared will bring in ?14,404,000 ($70,000,000) this year...
...Trifling alterations in the British tariff schedules will result, for example, in a fall of one farthing ?c) per pound in the retail price of sugar; 5) Finally Chancellor Churchill budgeted with satisfaction that, although Great Britain must pay upon her debt to the U. S. this year the sum of ?32,845,000, she will receive the nearly equivalent sum of ?32,000,000 from German reparations and the debt payments of her Allies...
...cost could run as high as $1,500,000,000, or $1,210,000,000 more than the Army engineers had asked for the work. The President suggested what an uproar Congress would have made if the situation were reversed, if the Administration had asked such a monster sum. He indicated pretty clearly what part he thought the railroad and lumber interests had played in the drafting of the provisions, which included purchase of rights-of-way as high as $75 per acre. "They shall not pass," said the President's tone of voice...
...found himself obliged to dispose of $4,750,000. Last year the company earned $6,500,000. After taxes and preferred dividends the $4,750,000 remained for the common stockholders. Since Mr. Morris is the company's sole common stockholder, he might have assigned himself all the sum. Instead, he ordered it applied to company surplus...
Fifty-four hits for 93 bases tells the story of the propensity of the team for long-distance hitting. Eight doubles, six triples, and one home run, registered by Captain H. W. Burns '28 make up the sum of the extra-base hitting...