Word: sums
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Geneva and at Paris diplomats dropped a pregnant word or two anent M. Caillaux's mission. "Set all question of figures and barter aside," said they. "If America expects any sum to be repaid by France over a period of 60 or 70 years, she is deluded. Grey-bearded men, yet unborn will not pay taxes to America in 1980. There was no Italy 60 years ago; will there be a France in 60 more? Sixty-two years ago the dollar was worth only a franc; it may be worth less than that in another...
...stretch of shore. He cared nothing for that. He wanted the rocks for fish-drying and bought them for one hundred dollars. Came a testy Englishman, with a mineralogist. While stupid Benoni fumbled for answers, the Englishman bid up to twenty thousand. Benoni's staggering imagination doubled the sum and collapsed. The Englishman had a title drawn and stalked...
...Artemus Ward Company follows close upon the announcement that the advertising company of which Barron Collier is president outbid the Artemus Ward Company for the Inter borough Lines advertising and vending nights. The terms of the contract provided a minimum payment for these rights of $30,090,000. The sum is to be divided over a period of 18 years...
...Stinnes heirs had chosen the architect - one Brantzky of Cologne. They had named the sum...
...Accrued expenses and taxes" have declined from $37,253,092 to $28,122,715. "Amortization of patents" was $183,028 in 1923 and $185,138 last year. Meanwhile "surplus"-the freak item of the whole statement-has increased from $442,041,081 to the colossal sum of $542,476,496-a jump of over $100,000,000 in a single year...