Word: sums
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...learned that the Agent General of Reparations, Mr. Seymour Parker Gilbert, called last week upon Premier Raymond Poincaré of France, and drew from him an admission that the French Government might soon consent to some scaling down of German reparations and to their fixation at a definite total sum. This last point was strongly urged by Agent Gilbert in his most recent report (TIME, Dec. 26), and, last week, he discussed it thoroughly not. only with M. Poincaré at Paris, but next day in Brussels with the Belgian Finance Minister Baron Maurice Houtart. At present the total "legal...
...necessary $250,000 is given now, the pool can be built immediately. The main building will be erected when the total cost of $1,200,000 has been raised. A provisional gift of $350,000 is available when the remainder of the sum has been collected...
Procedure: 1.) German Hop Grower makes contract with French Hop Merchant to ship hops at the supposedly current price per hop; 2.) Payment to German Hop Grower is made by the German Government, which is credited by the Reparations Commission with having paid this sum to the French Government; 3.) French Government eventually receives payment from French Hop Merchant after he sells the hops...
...embarrassing and he had just received a $195,000 nugget of them from President Francis Patrick Garvan of the Chemical Foundation. The money was of course not for Professor Abel himself. It was to finance research on the cause of the common cold. But in giving the sum to the School of Hygiene & Public Health of Johns Hopkins University, Mr. Garvan had insisted that the fund be called "The John J. Abel Fund for Research on the Common Cold." To that insistence he added: "In asking that the name of your great scientist be connected with this research...
...tuition-to-cost ratio. With the operating expenses of the University over nine million dollars, less than one fourth of the amount is paid by the students in actual tuition charges. Included in the operating expenses, however, are enrolled items amounting to approximately another fourth of the total sum which are paid indirectly or directly by the students in the form of rent, food bills, and miscellaneous charges. The blunt fact remains that about one half of the University's operating cost for the year is taken care of by gifts and the income from the permanent endowment. This approximates...