Word: budgeted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Government. Speaker Garner stood sponsor for legislation which would authorize the new President not only to abolish and consolidate all executive departments but also to control the public purse by reducing or suspending appropriations fixed by law and by cutting Federal salaries at will-all to help balance the Budget. Declared the Speaker: "I'm ready to go the limit and the limit is the Constitution...
...went 250 invitations to 250 Great Names throughout the land to journey to Washington and tell the Senate Finance Committee what was wrong with the U. S. First Great Name to open last week's hearing was Bernard Mannes Baruch. His advice: "Balance the Budget. Tax everybody for everything. Take hungry men off the world's pavements." He proposed the following farm relief plan: Let the Government allot production quotas on corn, cotton, wheat and tobacco and then lease the farm land thus left idle at an average of $3 per acre per year, thereby compensating the producer...
...budget, Il Duce boldly ordered the then Finance Minister, Antonio Mosconi, to state last June that "for the present and during the economic crisis the Government cannot balance the budget." The Cabinet has released a provisional budget for this year carrying an estimated deficit of 3,087,500,000 lire...
...other lands (where railroads are usually state-owned) there are Railroad problems too. But they are chiefly operating problems. In France the problem is to keep the trains on the track as well as to keep them from wrecking the French budget. In Russia it is to run more trains faster-the Soviet budget having no particular balancing point.* Though critics insist that U. S. railroads have been technological laggards (compared to other U. S. industries), the fact remains that the U. S. railroad plant is the finest in the world. Of the world...
...Finances of France; Letters to a Bourgeois of 1914. Last week M. Bonnet proposed to juggle some four billion francs out of the deficit by suspending during the crisis amortization of the national sinking fund and by transferring the deficits of the French State Railways from the budget to a special account which he hopes to cover by upping taxes on gasoline and motor vehicles-Socialists having no sympathy for motorists...