Word: deficit
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...from 1922 to 1936-except for a two-year hitch in domestic politics-Career Man Alfaro has served on several Pan-American committees, has picked up decorations from Peru, Venezuela, France. As President pro tem after Rebel Arias' coup, he balanced the budget, turned the National Bank deficit into a credit. With the support of the Leftist Liberals he set out to crack the N. R. P., which has dominated Panama's politics since...
...Christians are concerned, for now they are cut off from almost all the $5,000,000 they normally receive from the Continent, from 20% to 50% of the $10,500,000 they normally get from England. U. S. leaders hope to raise at least $1,500,000 towards this deficit, over and above the $17,000,000 U. S. Protestants annually give to foreign missions. With this $1,500,000 they hope to keep Europe's missions open for a year, although budgets must be slashed to the bone...
...Locker. Under Willkie orders, and Joe Martin's directions, was National Committee headquarters in Chicago in the hands of John D. M. Hamilton, an able executive who is largely responsible for the fact that the Republican Party did not start this campaign with a back-breaking deficit. Working with Executive Hamilton was 6 ft. 3 in., 33-year-old Governor Harold Edward Stassen of Minnesota. His job: to do the politicking in the western campaign...
...jumped from $25 a ton to $61 ; bleached No. 1 book sulfite pulp, at $72.50, is 45% above August 1939. For integrated paper companies with their own pulp supply, this is caviar. International Paper & Power earned $3.61 a common share in six months ended June 30 as against a deficit of $1.22 last year. But for the nonintegrated units ("converters," who buy their pulp), high pulp prices mean a tight squeeze. One integrated paperboard producer recently found he could sell unbleached kraft pulp, his raw material, for $61 a ton, while finished board, costing him $10 more to make than...
...Neck he blazed away at Burlington President Ralph Budd (member of Franklin Roosevelt's Defense Advisory Commission) "for sacrificing the Fort Worth & Denver City Railway on the altar of Burlington front-office convenience." The "Burlington Boys," he roared, had put the "snatch" on the road to bolster deficit-ridden C. & S., were cold to the fact that 190-odd Fort Worthians would lose their jobs by removal of the offices to Denver. He even suggested that Texas, whose railroad taxes were 50% lower than Colorado's, might well up F. W. & D. C.'s tax bill...