Word: sums
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...then, it be admitted that by "most economical" is meant that plan which will cost U. S. and British taxpayers the least total sum, the U. S. proposals seemed to fulfill that claim. They consistently envisioned both a smaller number of ships and a lower total tonnage than the British proposals...
...devoting a considerable sum of money every year, a maximum in one year of $5,000,000, to ... a new board called the Empire Marketing Board...
...President at Ouster Park last week came Herbert C. Hoover, reported on conditions in the flood area. His report centred upon the following points: The Federal Government normally appropriates some $16,000,000 yearly for control and navigation of the Mississippi River. This sum should be increased by from $15,000,000 to $20,000,000 annually, and the increase should tinue for ten years, making a total extra expenditure of from $150,000,000 to $200,000,000. Flood prevention plans should include the building of higher, wider levees; the construction of a spillway* in Louisiana (probably using...
...included the killing of a very large number of persons, chiefly sheriffs, and on one authentic occasion he and four companions attacked 60 Union soldiers and managed to kill 52. He made almost a habit of giving poor farmers money to pay off their mortgages, but usually recovered the sum from the holder of the mortgage by violent means...
...week a white marble staircase which spirals from the first to the fourth floor of Elbert Henry Gary's Fifth Avenue mansion in Manhattan went begging for a buyer at $1. Twelve years ago the staircase cost $150,000. Today it could hardly be duplicated for twice that sum. But because modern homes want no white marble staircases, because the labor of removing this one intact would cost thousands of dollars, the wrecking company which will raze Judge Gary's home to the ground to make way for a large co-operative apartment house, has decided to pound...