Word: deficit
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...miles of subway routes (London. 75 miles; Paris, 70). Together with an additional 120 miles of elevated lines, it carried 2.255,000,000 passengers during the last fiscal year, more than were carried by any other railroad. But the below-cost 5? fare-politically inexpedient to change -has piled deficit upon deficit on New York's subways. Not until 1982 will the last of the present transit debt be paid off. Fortnight ago, an apprehensive Citizens Budget Commission put the total ultimate cost to the city of existing lines at $3,295,000,000, offset by estimated past...
...food supplies seized were an immediate gain for 70,000,000 Nazi gullets, fine for a short war. But Europe has never been able to feed herself, let alone secure a balanced diet, without importing great quantities of foodstuffs, fodder, fertilizers. France made up most of her deficit with imports from Morocco. The Balkan States have long been selling their small exportable food surplus to Germany. If there is surplus food in Russia with all her great grain fields, it is a State secret. As a whole the territory that Hitler took merely added to his domains more territory that...
According to William H. Claflin Jr. '15, the Treasurer of the University, the deficit merely indicates that for the first time in recent years Harvard ran over its budget. The deficit was payed out of special department reserves...
...University can not afford to continue to show an operating deficit, and plans are now being considered for retrenchment. One of the principal reasons given by President Conant for his new tenure system was to reduce teaching expenses. Last year, the Service Departments of the University reduced their costs by a sizable amount...
...several years the College has had an increasing deficit, and, according to Clafflin, has become Harvard's main financial worry. Next year officials will have to cope with a decrease in tuition due to conscription. The graduate schools, especially, should have a sharp drop next fall in their enrollment...