Word: sums
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...When I suggested the sum of 100,000 pesetas General Silvestre flew into a raging fury. He cried that I was a robber. Then, before I knew what he was doing he struck me full in the face. The blow was so unexpected and so powerful that it knocked me to the ground. I fell, bleeding from the mouth. What could I do? There were Spanish soldiers everywhere. I had only a handful of my tribe with me. I only staggered to my feet and returned to my fellow-tribesmen. But within me there was kindled in that moment...
...Dawes Plan, that he has received this year 1,211,950,000 gold marks ($288,444,100) in reparations payments. For the first time a portion of the transfers were made in cash, totaling 65,000,000 gold marks, of which the U. S. received $5,904,770. This sum amounts to roughly 2½% of the total of $245,000,000 scheduled for payment to the U. S. within 20 years under the Dawes Plan...
...What sum did critics lately agree was the correct gratuity for a common shave...
...Whereas my honored and revered great-grandfather, Anson G. Phelps, bequeathed to my father $5,000 . . . the income therefrom to be devoted to the spread of the Gospel and to promote the Kingdom of the Redeemer on Earth . . . I bequeath the said sum of $5,000 to my son, Cleveland Earl Dodge ... to be sacredly appropriated as was directed in my grandfather's will...
...city treasury for full payment. Warren's present beggary is the catastrophe to overspending which U. S. municipalities do not seem capable of resisting. Last year local governments assessed taxes of $5,100,000,000, an increase of 76% over those of 1919. But even this huge sum (the highest Federal taxes ever levied for a single year were $5,069,000,000 in 1919) was insufficient. Local disbursements exceeded receipts by $2,300,000,000. To get this money, state and municipal bonds were issued for $1,399,637,992 last year...