Word: amounts
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...inspection of the sani- tary conditions and the ambulance and hospital service at the Russian front. This brought me in contact with General Korniloff and other Russian officers and with the officers of the Russian Red Cross, and the Union of Zempsvos. We were amazed at the vast amount of relief work being done by these and other organizations in Russia. We in America scarcely realized that there have been four million sick and wounded soldiers in Russia since the beginning of the war. I learned that 2,700,000 of them have passed through the hospitals in Moscow alone...
...ships as large as the Mont Blanc have doubtless been blown up in this war, and scores of costly collisions between vessels have occurred. But never has an explosion on board ship had the disastrous effect of this one. It is supposed that the Mont Blanc carried a huge amount of the new explosive, trinitrotuluol, T.N.T., a glistening pale-yellow powder, as potent as nitroglycerine, though safer to handle. Moreover, the situation of the ship in the half-mile-wide Narrows, between two rising shores, seems to have caused the blast to rake the city with peculiar effectiveness...
...size and sort, the residential area destroyed would almost correspond to East Boston. And beyond the area of practical destruction enormous damage has been caused by the peculiar vicious swiftness of the explosion. Thirteen hundred persons have been killed and a great many more wounded. Nothing like the amount of blinding has ever been observed in a disaster of this sort...
...latest method to raise money for war purposes interests those who have no bank account and those who have plenty of ready money. The stamp system depends on the collection of small savings from day to day. Instead of a bond for a comparatively large amount, maturing several years hence, the Government has printed war savings stamps, which can be redeemed with interest at ten day's notice. Sixteen thrift stamps may be obtained singly, which enable one to purchase a war savings stamp, valued at $4.12. These may be bought at any postoffice. By still collecting, until...
...lining to the cloud of Russian confusion; it also acts as a "coup de grace" to the pacifistic element of the country. What we must beware of now is doing more talking than acting. We have to spend this year about three-quarters as much money as the entire amount expended in the last one hundred and twenty years. This means saving on the useless things, it means buying only those articles which help win the war. Thus we will turn industry into efficient productive channels and the men at the front will have real backing from home...