Word: amounts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...time--nineteen-twentieths of them--brought their water in their own pails from one of two pumps in the Yard, carrying it up to their rooms themselves. They had no hot water whatever, unless they heated a pot on their own fire, and very few did that. Consequently the amount of bathing done in the College was extremely limited. Harvard was a college of personalities...
...Linton, Ind., John ("Old John") Eddy, 77, celebrated the 41st anniversary of his emigration from England, since when he has drunk no water, because U. S. water made him "violently ill." His substitutes: tea, coffee, beer, "a moderate amount of stronger drink...
...dollar or returning confidence in Europe or both would probably draw the gold away. And this possibility is the chief argument against Federal Reserve Board action to cut the present high total of excess bank reserves (TIME, Feb. 10). Gold shipments reduce bank reserves by a like amount...
...some 20 companies to which the original franchises were granted many years ago. Stock in these companies is owned by the Wideners, the Elkinses and other First Philadelphia Families. For the privilege of using these rights-of-way, P. R. T. pays annual leases which amount to some $7,000,000. In good times,, when revenues were as high as $58,000,000 a year, P. R. T. absorbed the leases and still made money. In Depression, with revenues down to less than $35,000,000, the burden of lease payments resulted in a series of deficits...
Magnin's customers are the richest and swankest between the Gulf of California and the Strait of Juan de Fuca. Four-fifths of them run charge accounts, and, on Magnin's balance sheet, customer accounts are nearly three times as large as inventory and amount to 45% of all assets. But Magnin's has been in the red only twice-in 1932 and in 1906, the year of the San Francisco earthquake-fire when merchandising activities had to be carried on in the Magnin house...