Word: deficit
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...next day saw the whole conference reconvened in the new debutanted Littauer auditorium where there followed a tidal wave of voluble riot and disorganized debate. In vain did the group mentality strive to find the fruits of its previous well-ordered labor mirrored in the stormy session that questioned deficit finance, public spending, and even the protagonists' intentions. Roberts' rules were not enough to resist the tide of debate. Two chairmen substituted for each other as arbitrary Noah's Arks, and yet the debate reached a point where at one moment a resolution was voted...
...given concerts in Bath's Pump Room for 234 uninterrupted years. Last week word leaked out that the famous Pump Room Orchestra was to be disbanded. Reason: for its size, Bath's orchestra had set a new record in box-office flops. This year's expected deficit...
Oliver Farm Equipment Co. (plows, tractors, seeders, threshers) was formed in 1929 by the merger of four small farm-implement concerns. That year it had assets of $46,000,000, sales of $27,400,000. In 1932 sales collapsed to $4,400,000 and the deficit amounted to $4,164,974.61. But by thriftily plowing back its earnings, Oliver finally emerged from debt last October after a 1937 profit of $2,182,763.36 (it fell...
Last week, he was visibly glad the strain was over. He made good all but $30,000 of the loss, offered his house to reduce the deficit further, said he wanted to take his medicine. Impressed, the judge let him off with two to five years in State prison...
...been financed for the last six years by an annual grant of $40,000, a third of this paid from Union receipts, two thirds by the University Dining-Halls. Abolition of T. S. E. P., depriving many students of jobs would nevertheless reduce the Dining-Halls' deficit to a negligible sum and put the Union back on a paying basis...