Word: sums
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...comparison with the size of the British holdings, the amount of pool capital discussed last week was chicken feed: $25,000,000 to $75,000,000. Such a sum would have to be revolved several times (as it easily could be) to make a dent on Britain's need. This week, Quinn & friends were back in Wall Street, still discussing. Meanwhile the British were discussing too. Faced with Morgenthau's ultimatum, they were still reluctant to put their properties on this or any other counter...
Said Mr. Schock: "I have no ax to grind. ... If the public continues to patronize the company, the sum will be abundant...
...twelvemonth just past, U. S. citizens legally bet $408,528,000 on the horses. That was $117,000,000 more than they bet in 1939. Bets placed illegally with bookmakers amounted to an unknown sum. What might the figure be this coming year, with "defense" money bulging railbirds' pockets? Race-track owners last week rubbed their palms...
...these could have refused the unwelcome orders. None did. With bottomless resources, they could have expanded mightily into munitions, cleaned up for a few years. They did not do that either. Each mobilized its men and skills, agreed to build and operate munitions plants for a very nominal sum above cost, the Government to own the plants. Result of this combination of patriotism and restraint: at industry's own request, a large part of the U. S. arms business was in effect nationalized...
...into the "premium pool" which the Government thus set last week provisionally at $1,600 millions. If the grand total of war damage to British buildings turns out to be still greater than this, then under the War Damage Bill property owners will compulsorily make up half the outstanding sum and the Treasury will foot the other half of the bill...