Word: sums
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Navy men, considering themselves guardians of all this wealth, not to mention the 400 billions heaped up in the U. S., think that a couple of hundred millions per annum for five years is a very modest sum for them to ask for new equipment. Walter Bruce Howe, ardent president of the Navy League, exclaims: "The price of one picture show from every American each year, in addition to the present Naval budget, would provide the difference nicely...
...intimacies of love's juncture with the purity and the absence of shame that lovers feel in their meeting; she has brought what was inarticulate and troubled and confused into the realm of conscious beauty, where it may be recalled and enjoyed with a new intensity; she has, in sum, found a language for experiences that are otherwise too intimate to be shared...
...largest piece of foreign financing in immediate prospect is another Australian Government loan, for a sum not yet announced by J. P. Morgan & Co., Australia's bankers, but reported to be between $50,000,000 and $75,000,000. The bonds, which will be the eleventh Australian issue brought out in the U. S. market, will bear 5% interest and will be sold in the neighborhood...
Secretary Mellon in a recent article quoted by the Boston Transcript states that the nation's nine year naval program of $740,000,000 amounts to less than half the sum which the women of the United States spent on their cosmetics in the year 1925. He suggests, in defense of the navy, that there are times when gunpowder is more necessary than face powder...
...that many American women seem to have contributed overmuch to the $1,825,000,000 which go to make up the cosmetic bill, but it is as impossible to prove that to them as it is to prove to the Navy Department that $740,000,000 is an inordinate sum to spend on battleships; so perhaps it is advisable not to try to remedy either case. In a large navy we give the women something to powder for, and in the beautiful women the navy something to fight...