Word: budgeted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...theme of each mayor was the same: municipal credit with local banks was exhausted. Default on municipal securities loomed.∙ Taxpayers were on a silent strike. The cost of unemployment relief continued to soar. Jobs and salaries had been cut and cut again and still the municipal budget would not stay balanced for a week at a time...
Dragging a $156,710,400 deficit behind it the French budget moved from the Senate to the Chamber of Deputies last week. MM. les Deputies proceeded to increase the deficit by 846,000,000 francs and sent the budget back to the Senators again. Premier Daladier's is the job of forcing some sort of a compromise, and bringing the budget to final vote without losing his government, a business which Deputies, Senators and Cabinet all view with marked disfavor. Canny Socialist Deputies found a way of postponing the fateful day by attaching a rider to the budget giving...
There will be no such delay if French taxpayers have their way. Protests at the unbalanced budget poured into Paris from all quarters last week. The National Committee of Economic Understanding called upon all Paris shops to close for a half-day in protest. Wrote the sober Temps, even before the Chamber increased the deficit...
Part Two of the National Recovery Act was President Roosevelt's colossal public works program. For this purpose $3,300,000,000 was to be raised by Federal bond issues which, with other "extraordinary" budget expenditures, would probably put the Public Debt to an all-time high.* The proceeds were to be lent to states, counties and municipalities on a 30-to-70 basis. It was estimated that each billion dollars would put 1,000,000 men to work constructing bridges, laying roads, clearing slums, eliminating grade crossings, building war ships. Private industry was to get no cash from...
...week's events brought Premier Daladier plenty besides Hitler to ponder. First there was the domestic situation. The existence of a French Premier, never too secure, becomes most critical at Budget time. France's budget, under consideration by the Senate for two weeks, comes up again for discussion by the Deputies this week. It cannot be balanced for 1953: as passed by the Senate last week it contained a deficit of $156,710,400. French Socialists under long-nosed Léon Blum served notice on the Radical-Socialist* Government of Premier Daladier that they would not support...