Word: sums
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...paramount. Only one other Briton eclipsed her achievements- Colonel Thomas Lawrence. They worked by similar means, both possessing an uncanny power of winning the confidence and loyalty of Arabians. The cash value of their services was set at $750,000 by the Turkish Empire which publicly offered that sum for their heads...
Thus, against many argumentative attacks, he has serenely resisted the distribution of U. S. Steel's $521,863,109 surplus. That sum means far more than money to Mr. Gary. It is the balance wheel to his corporation. It is the keel of his ship. It makes U. S. Steel Common (since last April definitely at 7%) an incomparable symbol of security, despite bad years, which no business can escape. For the the last quarter of 1914 it had only $567,359 of profits available for dividends which required 12 times that sum. The difference came from surplus...
...coal industry could be put upon its feet by carrying out the recommendations of the Royal Coal Commission (TIME, Oct. 19 et seq.). The Government's offer of a ?3,000,000 ($15,000,000) coal subsidy was still open. It might be better, however, to expend that sum for the relief of miners thrown out of work by readjustments in the industry. If this program were not at once put into operation and mining resumed, Britain's foreign coal competitors would succeed disastrously in capturing and holding British markets...
...statement by Home Secretary Sir William ("Jix") Joynson-Hicks to the Commons that "the Government does not propose to terminate its official protest by renouncing the Anglo-Russian trade agreement-nor does the Government propose to stop any Russian money sent to aid the coal miners. . . . The total sum so transmitted now amounts...
...lips by Fate or Chance. It is scarcely realized today through what extraordinary vicissitudes he has passed. "The Supreme War Criminal" (1918)-Mr. Lloyd George haying actually won an election with the slogan "Hang the Kaiser!" : "Wilhelm of Doom" (1926)-Herr Hohenzollern having already received from the Reich a sum equivalent to $1,000 for every day since his abdication...