Word: sums
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...base transportation rates, and so, profits. But shippers insist on a fixed, 1914 valuation. The I. C. C., they say, must catch the values of the railroads at some point, and the year 1914 is as good as any. People who use trains must pay profits on some fixed sum...
...Busch (breweries) estate, to pay into the U. S. Treasury within 90 days $226,878. This is one-half of the $453,756 which the I. C. C. says that the road earned from 1921 to 1924, in excess of 6% of its 1914 valuation. It is a trivial sum. But the decision carried a threat of possible loss in values to all the U. S. railroads of eleven billion dollars...
...That he would sell for a round sum duplicate copies of numerous forgeries supplied by him to potent clients, many of whom believed that they had bought genuine documents proving whatever it was that they wished to prove...
...sum of $46,000 is bequeathed to Harvard University by the will of Mrs. Isabella Holden Corey, widow of D. P. Corey of Maiden...
...sum will make up a fund to be held in trust as the Arthur Deloraine Corey Fellowship, the income to be expended in the aid of graduates of the college who may pursue studies in classical philology in European institutions, which shall be approved by the President and Fellows of Harvard College...