Word: budgeted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...short on State worries. The number of people on relief in New York is around 2,000,000, more people than there are in Connecticut or Kansas, or Florida or Nebraska. In 1935 Governor Lehman will need about $100,000,000 of new taxes to balance his budget, enough money to run half a dozen good sized states...
Finance. ". . . A balanced budget in 1937 will contribute both to business recovery and to increase in Federal revenue...
...courage-priming whistle: "The American shipbuilding industry is notable for its crude technique, and ship-building is very expensive there. . . . If a race develops the Japanese Navy will be very economical." It is less than a month since the Japanese Navy saddled the Empire with the most gargantuan defense budget in Japanese peacetime history (TIME, Dec. 3). Undoubtedly with grave misgivings, Emperor Hirohito, the bespectacled Son of Heaven, signed his Privy Council's awful decision last week as the world's only other Emperor of consequence was polishing the London Naval parley off into oblivion. The delegates...
...Rambled through a free-for-all monetary debate in which the Government was besought by M. P.'s of various factions to attempt pound-dollar stabilization. Replied the Empire's beak-nosed budget balancer, Chancellor of the Exchequer Neville Chamberlain: "[We] must wait until there is such a change of price levels as may bring the dollar and the franc into greater harmony with one another, which I understand is the policy of the United States to bring about and to which I, for one, wish all possible success...
...preserve the seats of their trousers as long as possible, French bureaucrats sit on round pieces of leather, are known derisively as les ronds-de-cuir. Cozily last week they closed the books on the French Budget of 1916, obtained the Senate's approval for their final audit which showed a deficit of 22 billion (old style) francs or 110 billion present-day gold francs. When a Senator protested at the ronds-de-cuir delay, Finance Minister Louis Germain-Martin hotly assured him that a mighty reform is under way which will permit all French budgets to be closed...