Word: netting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...public debt reached $40,440 millions-an alltime record, a 150% increase since 1930, a net increase in the public debt roughly equivalent to that caused by World...
...Republican Twenties, while Washington boasted balanced budgets, State and local governments were running up debt at the rate of nearly $1,000,000,000 yearly; since 1932, however, State and local governments instead of providing an outlet for savings have been piling them up. Carrie's argument : the net Federal investment now has to be at least $1,000,000,000 to provide equivalent purchasing power...
...growing technical weight in Washington came in the spring of 1938, when he wrote an influential memo on the Causes of the Recession. Its prime theses, now commonplace: 1) U. S. Social Security taxes took so much out of the public pocketbook that the Government's net contribution was reduced during the crucial March-September period in 1937 to a monthly average of $60,000,000 from $335,000,000 during 1936. 2) "Compensatory" Federal spending to stimulate heavy industry might be more flexible if concentrated "in large part outside the regular budget...
...networks which feed 350 of them, revealed how radio stood in 1938. Its plant value and investment totaled $1,068,339,901. Total revenues (time sales, talent placing, rental of network facilities, etc.) were $111,358,378. Broadcasting expenses (talent costs, advertising, promotion, administration, etc.) were $92,503,594. Net income from broadcasting in 1938: $18,854,784, 17% less than 1937's net...
...lawn darts (with a cork target set on a wooden backstop), clock golf, rope quoits, paddle tennis, lawn cricket (a juvenile version of the British game), lawn hi-li (played on a court similar to badminton with wicker baskets instead of racquets and a narrow cord instead of a net), penguin skittles (a complicated version of ninepins with wooden penguins to knock down...