Word: budgeted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...practical purposes all the elements of the budget, except one, had long been disposed of. The requirements of all the regular Government departments had been settled before the President finished his Thanksgiving visit to Warm Springs. The Treasury's guess as to the amount of revenue available in fiscal 1937 had been filed away as a State secret. All that remained was to settle how much money Franklin Roosevelt would ask. not for the Government, but for the unemployed...
...like a trifling puddle beside the oceans of red ink spread on the Government's books during the past two years, many a Washington wiseacre believed the President would profess uncertainty of Relief needs. He might, for example, ask only a billion for Relief. This would lend the budget a cheerful aspect that would last through next year's elections, after which another Congress could appropriate another billion...
Taking the hint, the Press jumped to the conclusion that big Federal works, such as the Florida Canal and Maine's Passamaquoddy Dam. would be separated from Relief projects, brought inside the regular budget. Right or wrong in its guess, the Press was brought up short on a matter of terminology. To a newshawk who asked if the "double-budget system" would be continued, the budget-burdened President gave an irate answer: There never had been any double budget. Regular and Relief expenditures were kept separate for the same reason that the War and Navy Departments were kept separate...
...Venezuela was one of few countries in the world last week with a balanced budget and a treasury surplus. Not a single foreigner owns a Venezuelan government bond and her money is the soundest in the world. Venezuela claims to have the finest highway system in Latin America, built entirely since 1912 and largely by the forced labor of political prisoners. Farmers pay no land taxes at all and may borrow up to 50% of the value of their land from a government farm bank. Caracas has been rebuilt. School attendance has been upped 300%. There is little...
Even Mr. Micawber knew that a balanced budget spells content, an unbalanced one misery; but Mr. Micawber never kept a budget. Neither did the Hoe family. Mr. Hoe thought there was something nobly American in owning your own home, even if you had two mortgages on it and could not pay the back taxes. Mrs. Hoe thought the niggardly pay she earned in a department store gave her the right to buy (on the installment plan) all sorts of luxury-conveniences. Their children thought that somehow there ought to be money enough to pay for their chosen careers: Dallas wanted...