Word: deficit
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...macaroni men; particularly sad for U. S. and Canadian farmers, who are still racing to dispose of surplus wheat crops (TIME, May 13). To Prime Minister Mussolini the development of wheat growing is more immediately important than cheap flour for his people. Half of Italy's trade deficit in 1928 was due to wheat imports, which amounted to three billion lire...
...third criticism concerns the $100 deficit. "After scores of debates," the editorial states, "some with paying audiences of five hundred, the Council faces a ledger with one hundred dollars on the wrong side." The Council began the year with $20 in the treasury. It engaged in nine home debates. Money was lost on six of these. Two just payed for themselves. On one--that with Boston College--$79.00 was cleared. This year's financial experience was typical, and not unusual, as the editorial would lead one to believe. By its very nature debating is not a profitable motivity. Harvard...
...deficit reduction and the Shouse appointment were Chairman Raskob's retort to disgruntleds of the party who seek his resignation. "Just soliciting," he said, had raised some $500,000 (chiefly in the East). Sale of the campaign speeches of Alfred Emanuel Smith in book form at $2 per copy, had brought in more than...
Democratic deficits customarily have been allowed to run over until the eve of the following campaign, thus strangling with debt all inter-election activity. Even the two-million-dollar Republican deficit after the Harding election was not liquidated until 1923, and then only by dubious collections and split...
...graduate committee, it was announced, will have a two-fold purpose, to bolster up the ailing financial status of the Council, and to aid in the experimental innovations which the Harvard teams are attempting: The Council has at present a deficit...