Word: sums
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...first of four successive programs planned by U. S. Navy men for the next 20 years. Each program is to take five years to complete. The "speculative" cost of the first five-year program, submitted last week, was put at $725,000,000. The U. S. could pay that sum in two years out of its tobacco taxes alone. The cost of the entire 20-year Navy building plan was estimated at $2,900,000,000 or about one-sixth of the present national debt. In advocating the new program, which was transmitted by Secretary Wilbur to Speaker Longworth...
...agree with the U. S. on naval limitation, neglected to deal with the desperate British coal situation, and once more rebuffed the expressed desire of Continental nations to gird the League with strength to enforce international settlements. Even should each of these doubtful acts be adjudged sound, their sum total remains negative and barren. Talk rumbles in England that a change at the helm of State is overdue. As the New Year looms, it is pertinent to re-examine Stanley Baldwin. Policies. The Prime Minister's policies are that he is honest, broadly disinterested, hugely naive, and means well...
...present so-called "Dawes Plan" - which specifies the annual pay ments to be made by Germany without stating how long they are to continue - must soon be definitized by some sort of agreement as to the total sum which Germany is expected to pay. Wrote Mr. Gilbert: "As time goes on and practical experience accumulates, it becomes always clearer that neither the reparations problem nor the other problems depending thereon will be finally solved until Germany has been given a definite task to perform on her own responsibility, without foreign supervision and without the transfer problem." The modest Agent Gilbert...
...Yard" contains news of the University that graduates would not otherwise recive. In 1927, 4,800 men contributed a total sum of $150,00. Compared with 1926 this shows an increase of 20 percent in the amount contributed, and 45 percent in the number of contributed. On January 1 the Fund begins its third year...
...Russia is ready to recognize our American obligations,' Tchitcherin said, 'and we have been ready to negotiate for their repayment for some time. The sum is a comparatively small one -about $275,000,000, I think. We are ready also to take up the question of certain American property in Russia that has been taken over by the Russian government and operated by us since...