Word: deficit
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...about all we could stand of the 'spokesman' idea. . . ." The Democratic National Committee announced last week that 30,000 copies of the campaign speeches of Alfred Emanuel Smith, in book form, had been distributed in exchange for $125,000 in contributions to the $1,500,000 Democratic deficit. Smallest contribution that will get a book...
...owns today about 600 merchant vessels, 250 in active service. Its operating deficit last fiscal year was $16,279,369. For five years President Coolidge has been urging the sale of the Government's ships and retirement from such a poor business...
...there were pending bills which would have doubled our annual cost of government. Had there not been a constant insistence [by the speaker] upon rigid economy, many of these bills would have become law. A decrease of less than 10% in the income of the nation would produce a deficit in our present budget...
Sugarmen wondered on what Rudolph Spreckels had built his faith. Like oil, the sugar industry suffers from overproduction. Consumption of sugar has declined steadily, due .to diet regulation, to increased smoking by men, women, children. Federal Sugar Refining Co. is no exception. Its last earnings report (1924) showed a deficit...
...which were held on January 5, were announced yesterday at the Law School. Twenty-nine scholarships have been awarded to first-year Law School men. They make up a total of over $12,000. Very few of these scholarships carry a stipend covering the tuition of $400, but the deficit is made up by the Law School...