Word: sums
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...rest easy that their treaty-restricted army of only 100,000 men will be raised to the highest attainable pitch of efficiency through the prudent expenditure, next year, of some 700,000,000 gold marks ($165,900,000) -some 30,000,000 more than last year. Even so this sum is dwarfed by the total of War pensions budgeted: 1,300,000,000 gold marks, or one-third more than the reparations payments...
This graceful confession came last week from Publisher George H. Doran of Manhattan. His magazine is the Bookman (monthly). His editor is John Chipman Farrar. The purpose of the confession was to explain the sale of the Bookman to Burton Rascoe and Eeward B. Collins, for an unannounced sum. The new owners will commence with the September issue...
Further, $10,000 is left to the President and Fellows under the provision that the sum is "to be invested and the income there of to be added to the principal for the during the term of 100 years from the date of my decease, and, at the expiration of said term, the principal sum, together with the accumulated interest, be divided into two equal funds". One of these is to be used for the care and maintenance of the Arberetum; the income of the other fund is to be added to the principal for an additional 100 years, when...
...annual reparations payments to which we are committed under the Dawes Plan represent a greater sum than the entire pre-War budget of the German Empire. Only foreign loans have enabled the Dawes Plan to operate hitherto, and the plain fact is that Germany cannot go on borrowing abroad forever...
Moreover, during the week, 125,000,000 gold marks ($29,745,000) were paid up on the dot to Agent General of Reparations Seymour Parker Gilbert who wrote down this sum as the first half-yearly installment of interest due, for the third reparations year, on the Dawes Plan loans of 5,000,000,000 gold marks. As security for these loans a virtual mortgage is held on the chief units of production comprising the mechanism of German industry...