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Dates: during 1920-1929
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American Piano (chartered in 1908) had a long and successful business career until 19-27, when common dividends were first passed. In 1928 the last preferred dividends were paid and the year ending March 31, 1929, showed a deficit of $235,235. Last July President George Urquhart reported that "decline in demand for pianos which started in 1927 continued through 1928, and in the present year to date...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Piano Glissando | 12/30/1929 | See Source »

...whose personnel were Russian Soprano Anna Lissetzkaya, Baritone Pasquale Amato, Soprano Dorothy Speare) was scheduled to open its second week. Singers backstage applied their makeup, practiced their trills. A thousand patrons arrived. But the Opera House doors remained closed. The performance was canceled, money refunded. Reason: a $15,000 deficit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Boston Opera | 12/23/1929 | See Source »

Last week to the House of Representatives, where all appropriations must originate, President Hoover sent his first Budget, providing for the fiscal year 1931.* Chief figure of the Hoover budget: $3,830,445,231, the Government's estimated expenditure for next year, exclusive of a postal deficit and additional outlay for the Federal Farm Board. Comparatively, this amount is $4,304,000 greater than current actual expenditures. Said President Hoover: "Our finances are in a sound condition." He envisaged surpluses of 225 million this year, 122 million next, reiterated his tax reduction recommendation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FISCAL: Budget in Green | 12/16/1929 | See Source »

...routine operation of Government-8? ($300,307,860, including the cost of Congress, the U. S. courts, foreign relations, law enforcement, the postal deficit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FISCAL: Budget in Green | 12/16/1929 | See Source »

...Because the cost of air mail service exceeded the postage revenue by some $7,000,000 last year, thus increasing the department's deficit Postmaster General Brown has called a conference of air mail operators to "readjust" contract rates...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Postal Report | 12/9/1929 | See Source »

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