Word: sums
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Export-Import Bank authorized France to use $93 million (and Italy $32 million) in untapped reconstruction credits for emergency purchases of fuel. The Army bought $50 million worth of French francs to pay off the first installment on wartime debts for rent, transportation and food. The biggest lump sum was a preliminary divvy of $360 million in gold looted by the Germans: $104 million to France, $29.4 million to Austria, $4 million to Italy, $40 million to The Netherlands...
...year-old Billy James left Ireland with "a very small sum of money" and a Latin grammar. When he died in 1832, the $3,000,000 he left his heirs (from public utilities and real estate) was the second largest fortune *in the State of New York. One of his 13 children, whose name was Henry, decided to use his inheritance to cultivate his passion for "being" instead of "doing." Wrote he: "I can give ecstatic hours to worship or meditation but moments spent in original deed, such as putting a button upon my coat or cleansing my garden-walk...
That six million in dividends, and not, as many suppose, the sum total of the University's money, comprises the bulk of cash available from the endowment fund for current expenditures. Add two million in "gifts for immediate use," nearly five million in reimbursement on Government contracts, and close to twelve million in tuition, and you have the total income of Harvard University in 1946-47--some twenty-five million dollars. Expenses ran a mite lower, leaving the University $369,333 in the black for the year...
...sum of history, their simple gesture might prove to be a moral aid to Europe as important in its way as material aid. For they had answered, for all free men to hear, the silent question posed by Petkoff's grave: "Am I my brother's keeper...
...expenditures, when translated into U.S. dollars at the prevailing rate of exchange, are on a Lilliputian scale. To govern the 450 million Chinese in a territory one-third larger than the U.S. and to carry all the expenses of the war, the Chinese Government now spends approximately the same sum annually as the municipal government of New York City...