Word: sums
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...producers can spend large sums in producing films for the home market alone; whatever sales or leases are made abroad are considered as surplus earnings. After yielding handsome returns in the U. S. over its cost, Charlie Chaplin's The Kid is said to have brought $350,000 returns in Britain. On the other hand, a successful British film exhibited in Britain, British Colonies and continental countries (but not in the U. S.) yielded a total return of only $100,000. A successful picture can scarcely be made for so small a sum, capable of competing with even...
...Debt Commissioners refused to allow a transfer of Belgian War borrowings to Germany. They declared that President Wilson's "promise" was not legally bound but that "nevertheless. . . . .there does continue a weighty moral obligation as a result of assurances given which differentiate this sum from all other debts due the U. S. from foreign countries." So it was agreed in compromise that Belgium should be bound to pay the principal of the $171,780,000 War borrowings over a period of 62 years, beginning with $1,000,000 in 1926, and scaling up to $2,900,000 beginning...
Britain, with an original War debt to the U. S. of $4,604,128,085 (now several millions greater because of interest), said in 1922 through Lord Balfour that she would collect from her Continental debtors (including Germany) a sum equal to her own War debt to the U. S. This was another way of telling...
...Belgian debt to the U. S. is $480,503,983, and it was this sum that the U. S. asked Belgium to settle in its recent circular letter to its debtors (TIME, June 8, THE CABINET). Belgium was surprised to get this note because, according to an agreement with the late President Woodrow Wilson, British ex-Premier George and French ex-Premier Georges Clemenceau, she signed the Treaty of Versailles only on condition that her War debts be canceled...
...three children of his second wife "are similarly provided for by their father's estate." "But," the will, written in Curzon's handwriting, continues: "I bequeath to each of them the sum of $25,000 as proof of my affection...