Word: budgeted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Alaska Road Commission, $1,596,000; for surveying the U. S.-Mexican border, $4,734,500. In other years, these and such expenditures as PWA made for the lighthouse service, immigration service, public health service, Army and Navy would have gone to swell the regular budget, which President Roosevelt is at great pains to keep within tight bounds...
...Manhattan that afternoon the Board of Estimate wasted no time in effecting much-needed savings in a city budget unbalanced to the tune of $31,000,000. The bill permitted the board to slash the city's expenditures some $13,000,000 by salary reductions, furloughs, consolidation of departments, abolition of useless jobs, of which 1,010 were abolished at once. What made the bill seem a puny thing to the Mayor was that such populous and politically potent city departments as Transit and Education had been exempted by the Legislature from pay cuts and reorganization...
...chunky Premier Doumergue, Death's visit to his parlor (see above) was the climax to an exhausting week. At long last France saw prospects of a balanced budget, when the Cabinet met with President Lebrun and signed five of the emergency decrees outlined fortnight ago (TIME, April 16) which will pare $264,000,000 from government expenses. BUT the balance will be possible only if France's gigantic army of civil servants and her War veterans agree to accept the projected cuts in salaries and pensions...
...weeks all French newspapers have been muttering that political parties of every complexion were arming for civil war, but here was the first official threat to the Government. Premier Doumergue won his point that to balance the budget the pension cuts must be retroactive from April 1, then hastened to comply with other parts of the veterans' demands...
...other issues. Lights burned brightly in the City (financial district) until midnight as clerks toiled over books. Iron and steel shares were up on news that March steel production was 829,700 tons, highest since the October 1929 peak. Government securities soared in anticipation of this week's budget announcements. A speculator named K. H. Williams was reported to have made $2,500,000 in West Africans alone. London's financial editors raised storm warnings...