Word: sums
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...this question of tax-exempt U. S. properties. Tax Assessor Richards' figures showed that if all taxable U. S. property in the District paid the present rate of $1.70 per $100, the total would be $7,990,000. The U. S. at present pays the District a lump sum of nine millions, less than a quarter of the District's running expenses. District commissioners think the U. S. should bear 40% of the District's running expenses...
...probabilities are that the Sheik was instructed to ask for a sum far in excess of $60,000, for the Berber tribes are shrewd and well know the value of their prisoners, two of whom are related to M. Theodore Steeg, French Resident General. The French, on the other hand, will never let it be known how much they pay for ransom, for their prestige is at stake, and prestige in Morocco is all important...
This art museum is one of Toledo's dearest prides. The citizens, not content with stark commercialism, determined to bring to their city all the concentrated beauty that a staggering sum of money could buy. It stands today one of the finest public collections in the western world. It was unquestionably the influence of this museum that prompted Lasalle & Koch to engage Artist Covey as their window-dresser. Nor did they engage him to help sell shoes and pots and furniture. Not one item of their stock was to be placed in their windows during the twelve days the pictures...
...made room for and set scientifically in place. Four years this process required. Last week it was completed. In all the years not one edition or one mail train was missed by a paper plant working 24 hours a day to publish a morning and evening newspaper to the sum of 700,000 daily copies...
...International Regime of Railways, and on the Supervision of the International Trade in Arms have been signed or ratified by a majority of the countries of the world. It is safe to say that all the heralded accomplishment of the Hague Conference did not compare with the sum of these benefits...