Word: borrowing
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Every nation, when it has to borrow money, should borrow it from its own people. That is what this country is doing through the Liberty Loans. Money is needed now in great quantities. The Loan is a good investment and is as secure as the Government itself. And, finally, the purchase of Liberty Bonds helps the conduct of the war, and that is the primary reason for investing in them. You should all help make this loan a success with a view to aiding materially in winning...
Last December Secretary McAdoo estimated that the expenses for the current fiscal year would be $18,775,919,000. We know now that they will not exceed $13,870,000,000. This in part, explains why we are borrowing now "only $3,000,000,000 and oversubscriptions," instead of the $10,000,000,000 which we had expected to borrow. Another factor contributing to the same result is the underestimate of the income and excess profit taxes. We supposed that each would yield about $1,200,000,000. The best present estimate is that the total of the two taxes...
...Second and Third Battalions who are at present without belts, bayonets or other equipment should borrow the needed articles from members of the First Battalion. All ordnance and equipment must be thoroughly cleaned, but cosmoline will be left in the barrels of all rifles...
...Department of Military Science and Tactics desires to borrow from students for topographical work as many camera tripods as practicable; fifty are needed...
Take a belief in your destiny, borrow a dress suit, astonish a social gathering to which you had no invitation with your brilliancy, and your fortune is made. This is the philosophy of John Paul Bart, tailor's presser, self-made man, who in four short acts raises himself from nothing to the pinnacle of power...