Word: sums
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...decided to give rough-&-tumble Board Chairman Tom Girdler a $51,000 boost over his regular $175,000 salary. At first they gave it to him in the form of an annuity, which they thought was exempt from taxes. But when the Board of Tax Appeals ruled that the sum was not exempt, Tom Girdler surrendered the annuity for cash...
Under a 20-year agreement with China's National Resources Commission, Westinghouse International will design buildings, set up machinery and production processes, and train personnel for a $35 million electrical manufacturing plant in China. In return, Westinghouse will get lump-sum payments for its know-how and brain power during the first ten years, royalties on the products during the second ten years...
That was Charlie's time to show his ace in the hole. What he wanted, he blandly revealed, was the sum that Transamerica Corp., aging A.P. Giannini's vast holding company, had offered him and his colleagues. (Transamerica's deadpan explanation: "It has very good earnings and it is a well-managed company. We want the stock for an investment.") National, according to an agreement, has the right to match this offer...
...soliciters for the Harvard Food Relief Committee will give to contributors a printed receipt, containing a serial number, the sum of the donation, and the signature of the solicitor. Students are warned not to give cash to anyone who cannot give them an official receipt...
...Food Committee has set $10,000 as its goal, a sum far less than the amount spent weekly by the students of this University on dates and other recreation. If every member of the University would contribute the cost of one evening's recreation to the Food Drive, the Fund would be oversubscribed. Relief organizations have found that five dollars will feed a European university student for three weeks; the price of a movie for two people will pay the cost of one week's food...