Word: sums
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...explained was a curious collection found in Florrie's trunk and in various places in the house: a package labeled "Arsenic-Poison for cats," three bottles with arsenic in them, a rag and a handkerchief impregnated with arsenic, other lethal odds & ends which doctors said were enough in sum to poison 50 people. Florrie was convicted, sentenced to be hanged...
...Judge Shinn did grant recovery on some items. He found that in 1935, when Consolidated bought four more Hearst papers (Baltimore News-Post and American, San Antonio Light, Atlanta Georgian), the $8,297,595 purchase price was too high by $2,832,941. Consolidated is entitled to recover this sum plus interest. He also ruled that Consolidated should recover some of the dividends it paid to other Hearst companies on stock which had not been paid for in cash, as well as interest on some complex inter-company loans. Best estimate of the total amount of the verdict (which...
...Germanic Museum Organ, by the way, continues to be owned not by Harvard University but by the Aeolian-Skinner Company which built it. And the Friends of the Bach Organ, an enthusiastic group of patrons, continues struggling to raise the sum that Aeolian-Skinner demands for it. As to why the University has done nothing about purchasing the organ-that should perplex no one. The Corporation just isn't interested. It will barter its birthright to acquire a new scientific instrument, or some rare species of flora for the Arnold Arboretum, but when it comes to seeing the value...
Since the Act went into effect, old-age insurance has yielded the Government $2,740,602,058. Of this sum, $114,840,215 (about 5%) has been paid out in benefits. Of the $2,582,230,805 which remained in the fund at the end of August (after administrative costs were deducted), all but $221,630,805 was invested by the Treasury in its own securities, was used by the Government to pay expenses. Into the unemployment pool, employers have paid $4,245,246,801. Of this, $1,757,230,769 (about 42%) has been paid back to workers...
...system put into effect this sum- mer by Landis is modeled after the British chain of posts that have proved so valuable in warding off Nazi bombers during the past year...