Word: sums
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sum up, the past month has witnessed a persistent spread of price increases from raw materials to semi-manufactured and then to finished goods. These in turn are more and more being passed on from wholesale to retail markets, and are affecting the living costs of the entire consuming population as well as the operating costs of the farmers...
Well might the President consider carefully before signing that mammoth document. It is the biggest tax bill in U.S. history. To the $9,500,000,000 which the U.S. would have paid next year under the present tax rates, it adds another $3,553,400,000, a sum that in 1927 would have run the U.S. Government for a whole year, but next year will last less than eleven weeks...
...Advanced Study, and the Department of Mathematics, of Princeton University, to assist me with ascertaining the difficulty of solving, a certain mathematical problem--submitted herewith--and in partial remuneration for this favor, offered to pay to the person first to submit the correct solution within 30 days, the sum of $25.00; and a partial solution within the amount of 25,000 of the correct solution, $10.00; within the amount of 50,000, $5.00; and within the amount...
...person first to submit the correct solution within 15 days--before September 28, 1941,--the sum of one hundred dollars ($100.00) will be paid: and a partial solution within the amount of 25,000 of the correct solution, fifty dollars ($50.00): within the amount of 50,000, twenty-five dollars ($25.00); within the amount of 75,000, fifteen dollars ($15.00); within the amount of 150.000 ten dollars ($10.00); within the amount of 500,000, five dollars ($5.00); and within the amount of 1,000,000, one dollar ($1.00): meaning that the partial solutions may be the above amounts, respectively, over...
...Kennedy listed "the things we ought to do: 1) Money. Have quite a large sum ... to be sewed into my stays. 2) See that each member of the household has a pair of good strong shoes. 3) Have a rucksack . . . for everyone, even Charles (the smallest). 4) Think out an iron ration of compressed food. 5) Remember gas masks, ration books and identification cards...