Word: totaled
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...bill on which the Senate was trying to act was, on its face, quite simple. As passed by the House it authorized the Navy Department to build five cruisers each year for the next three years, and one small aircraft carrier. The total cost of this program was estimated at $274,000,000. The cruisers would have a displacement of 10,000 tons each, as permitted in unlimited numbers by the disarmament treaty of 1922. Each cruiser, armed and ready for battle, would represent an investment of $17,000,000. The Navy has argued that it needs this new auxiliary...
...last week announced that it would soon apply to the Interstate Commerce Commission for permission to absorb the Reading R. R. and the Reading's subsidiary, Central R. R. of New Jersey. Such a merger would unite three roads with combined assets of about $1,712,826,542 and total trackage of 10,601 miles. The Jersey Central runs from Jersey City west to Scranton, Pa., and south to resort towns on the New Jersey coast. The Reading goes from Boundbrook, N. J., to Philadelphia, Reading, Harrisburg and Bethlehem, Pa., also Lancaster, Pa. and Wilmington...
...Roanoke Building, Minneapolis, opened last week a new Minneapolis-St. Paul Stock Exchange, formed chiefly for trading in issues not listed elsewhere. A total of 1,288 shares was sold during the first day's trading, such famed names as Munsingwear (undergarb) and Pillsbury (flour) appearing on the list. There were 44 stocks dealt in by 41 traders. Exchange officers are: George F. Piper Jr., president; W. W. Eastman, first vice president; C. O. Kalman, second vice president; Neil P. McKinnon, secretary...
...stage?be true, the resulting combination would constitute the world's largest bank. Guaranty Trust has resources of $1,052,000,000; National Bank of Commerce has assets of $934,000,000? thus the merged banks would form a two-billion-dollar institution. Combined deposits of the banks would total $1,570,000,000. An exchange of stocks would probably be made on a share-for-share basis, as both Guaranty and Commerce stock are quoted at more than $900 a share...
Under the new ruling, the total requirements for the degree is to be 16 half courses, the equivalent of two years' study. In addition to the work in the courses, candidates for the degree must take a general examination at the conclusion of their program of study, and also meet an apprenticeship requirement...