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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Since the subsidy extended to the coal industry last July has already cost the British taxpayer £100,000,000 (nearly half a billion dollars), there is the most intense opposition to its continuance* by all unsubsidized taxpayers. At the same time, the miners insisted last week, that they would walk out May, 1, unless their wage demands were met; and the owners vowed they would lock the miners out rather than pay the wage demanded, unless the government continues its subsidy...
...were passed, together with a poll tax expected to bring in 570 million francs ($19,950,000). Other miscellaneous taxes passed in quick succession. The whole, together with the taxes passed before the last Briand Cabinet fell (TIME, March 15), totaled a tax increase of somewhat more than four billion francs. This was an accomplishment of which MM. Briand and Peret might well have been proud. Yet the Premier ominously remarked: "I am not at all satisfied...
...voted during the Dou-mer régime, M. Péret figured that he might derive 1,600,000,000 francs. He estimated that by still further drastic governmental economies he could save 500,000,000 francs. There remained a deficit variously estimated at between 3 and 4 billion francs. To meet it, M. Péret proposed to the Chamber Finance Commission...
Vernal wanderlust commenced stirring last week. Last year some half billion dollars were spent in Europe by U. S. tourists, who traveled solitary or under the auspices of travel agencies such as Thomas Cook & Son. What was spent by the thousands who toured similarly to Asiatic countries, to the Mediterranean shore lands, the Holy Land, Morocco, Egypt, Turkey, it is difficult to estimate. Almost as much, probably...
...expenditure on roads in the U. S. for 1926. Local authorities are expected to spend $431,000,000. State highway departments are expected to spend $598,000,000 (of which $118,000,000 is to come as contributions from the Federal Government). The total expenditure of slightly over a billion dollars will provide 6,751 miles of asphalt, concrete and brick roads, 14,320 miles of sand-clay, gravel and macadam, and 8,145 miles of improved dirt road?and maintenance of 234,582 miles of roadway...