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Chicago's finances have long been sickly. Last year the treasury ran dry; payrolls looked papery; the city had to borrow $280,000,000 on future taxes. When bankers refused further advances, experts whittled out an "economy" budget for 1930. The whittlings: 2,153 city employes...
...heavy burden of $12.00 a week would have added only $600 a year to Harvard's budget; somehow perhaps a sympathetic administration might have found some way to manage it, especially when one considers that $600 represents the income on only $10,000 and Harvard just received $5,000,000 with no strings attached. One is led to believe that the University administration was not particularly anxious to raise the money for when the Locker Building burned a few nights ago several hundred thousand dollars were raised within forty-eight hours to replace it. Harvard, as we know, exists almost...
...budget is not only that of the government proper but includes receipts and expenditures from the state monopolies which carry on every sort of trade, plus mining, manufacturing, running the railways...
Whereas Chancellor Snowden is charged with a British budget balancing at only ?741,581,000 ($3,611,499,470), and Secretary Mellon carries on with but $3,643,519,875, the Russian budget in Mme Yakovleva's care balances at the stupendous total of Rubles...
Though the Soviet budget figure is the declaration of a sovereign state, and must be honored as such, it is also true that...