Word: bettered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This resembles the successful double budget by which Sweden governs itself. However, Sweden's extraordinary expenditures are for business "investments"-electric power production, mining, communications, liquor, tobacco, even lotteries-which are better than self-supporting and which return income to the Government. Most U. S. extraordinary expenditures (which include billions for WPA) bring little or no cash return...
...June and July. Income taxes, which last year accounted for 42% of all revenue, are expected to suffer from a Recession hangover, but payroll taxes and miscellaneous internal revenues are expected to increase appreciably, so fiscal 1940's $5,669,000,000 income should be $149,250,000 better than this year...
...Heil closed down the plant, half-masted the flag, went to the funeral. Julius Heil thinks he has as much social conscience as any man. When he set out to become Governor of Wisconsin, he said he wanted to become the State's general manager, to run it better. When Phil La Follette cried out against his "money bags," Candidate Heil replied typically: "Sure I'm a rich man. And I bet you wish you had more vultures like me who employ men and provide jobs...
...this was very disturbing to tall, red-suspendered Gonzalo Queipo de Llano, military ruler of southern Rebel Spain. Long on radiorating ability but short on generalship, General Queipo de Llano was said to have incurred the ire of El Caudillo Franco for not defending his bailiwick better. It seemed likely that El Caudillo would be forced sooner or later to pay some attention to Extremadura, perhaps transfer some badly needed troops from Catalonia...
...lands of which Hitler thinks most are those rich agricultural and mining areas in Russia, Poland and Rumania peopled by Ukrainians. Rather than pick up these areas one by one in battle or by bluff, the Nazis would be better served if they could incite the Polish, Rumanian and Russian Ukrainians to form an independent state-which the Nazis, having promoted, would puppetize...