Word: amounts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Receiving the reports, Commissioner Doran announced: "The Bureau of Prohibition will proceed to act upon applications ... for permits to manufacture whiskey for medicinal use. . . . The amount of actual whiskey on hand July 1, 1929 is 9,549,017 gallons. If further manufacture is now permitted, it will be late fall or nearly Jan. 1, 1930 before actual production commences. . . . Extensive examinations have been made of the bonded whiskey stocks and I can state that they are in sound condition. Of the 300,000 barrels in bonded storage not in excess of 1,000 barrels are of questionable quality. . . . The withdrawal...
...Only that amount of its $200,000,000 stock has been sold...
...court. He asserted that the newspaper accounts of the Virkula killing were "highly colored, to put it mildly," a statement denounced as "absolutely false" by the Minnesota authorities at International Falls. He rejected the suggestion that the Treasury disarm its border patrolmen, "which in effect would amount to a repeal of the Tariff Law." He insisted that the patrolmen had been ordered to use their guns only for self-defense or to prevent the commission of a felony, but later announced that he would forbid the carrying of shotguns and rifles by the border patrol...
...whether from the sun or from mercury or carbon lamps, prevent and cure rickets, are valuable for general well being. But too much of them can cause deep burns and nervousness. They are suspected as the remote cause of other ailments. It has been impossible to measure the exact amount given off by their source (sun or lamps) and to manage their dosage...
...because it represents the lowest terms by which the real worth of the collection as a whole can be judged. It is a conservative estimate that every single volume added to the Library this year has increased the value of other books already there, by at least an equal amount, whether measured in money or by the tests of value to scholars...