Word: sums
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...dramatist last week with a theatricalization of his story The Green Bay Tree. This transference was achieved under the sentient auspices of Arthur Hopkins,* and brought to life upon the stage by such luminaries as Elsie Ferguson and Nance O'Neil. The whole was considerably smaller than the sum of the parts; the general verdict blamed the play...
...members of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, with Doctor Nicholas Murray Butler at their head, would have the text modified, but as contributors of one-sixth the total sum, they have no controlling vote. Germany has remained silent, having in mind perhaps the ineffectuality of her, unofficial protest against the war memorial at Dinant, which depicts a German soldier holding aloft on his bayonet the body of a Belgian baby...
...chairman of the Budget Committee, that the total amount which up to the present has been paid on the Budget has reached the $6059 mark. The balance of the $12,000 which was set as a goal for the budget is pledged to be paid by November 30. This sum is to be divided among the organizations which before the institution of the budget system regularly solicited independently, in addition to which portions will be given to the various classes, and certain sums will be used to pay for sundry expenses incurred by the Student Council. John Watts...
Last summer President Philip Albright Small Franklin sold the corporation's White Star Line, getting about $36,500,000 (TIME, May 17, 1926). That sum approximates the amount of bonds which I. M. M. has owed for years. But President Franklin, astute, did not pay off any bonds. He kept the millions ready to snap up at sacrifice sales, bonds or ships. He has bought overtly no ships during the year, but probably many a bond discreetly offered...
...typing and paper work -that is, the red tape." Hazy distribution of authority and inactive navy yards were two more subjects discussed. Then some more figures for 1926: "To operate, maintain, repair and supply the vessels of the fleet cost $163,000,000. And to administer this sum cost nearly half as much, or $77,500,000. ". . . For every dollar expended for repairs, it required that nearly four dollars be expended to make the repairs. . . ." Rear Admiral Magruder wound up with a consideration of Navy salaries, the need of enlisted men, uses to which decommissioned ships might...