Word: sums
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...sure Dr. Pospisil came to settle a debt of only 117 millions instead of 4 billions, but he had some special difficulties of his own -notably a disagreement over the principal sum. The Czecho-Slovakian debt was contracted after the War and comprised several items including purchase of War supplies, relief supplies, flour, cash ,advances, repatriation of Czech soldiers from Siberia...
...Pospisil took a short cut. Said he: "As there are a number of disputed items between us as to the capital sum of the debt, we believe that, instead of entering upon the very large expense and delay involved on both sides by a reaccounting, we are prepared to yield on some considerable part of these items and to propose to you a round sum of settlement-that is, that we should consider the capital of the debt as at June...
...Department of Labor began to feel its purse and advise discretion in the choice of Chinamen for deportation as the result of the recent tong war. The cost deporting the 267 Chinese-seize-in-. Manhattan alone will probably come to $56,000, a sum greater greater than the appropriation available to the Immagration service for deportation purposes...
That universities can afford to pay this, Dr. Bohn maintains in good scholarly fashion by printing a list of some recent donations to institutions of the "higher" learning, and adding up the sum-$1,585,500,000. Said...
...hundred professors a minimum salary of $30,000 a year and the entire profession will soon demand justice of the public .... They should receive from $30,000 to $50,000 annually. The tendency should be, unless the cost of living falls off sharply, to pay the higher sum generally. . . . This nation spends many hundreds of millions a year upon chewing gum and candy ... a half-billion on military and naval aviation since the war. . . billions for pleasure automobiles. Our contention here is that it is not being used to the best advantage...