Word: budgeted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...took 35 minutes off for lunch alone at a soda-fountain restaurant. His job was not new to him; he had filled it often and well during the protracted junkets of fun-loving "Jimmy" Walker. A thrifty Scot, he promised to economize, to cut the $631,000,000 city budget to the bone. With the change of mayors, municipal bonds rose two points...
...small contributions to the Democratic campaign fund. Next day to Manhattan headquarters a Dr. M. Collier, dentist, brought the first $1. Behind him came Bishop Julius Walter Atwood of Arizona, member of Manhattan's exclusive Century Club, with a $10 check. First day's collections: $197.50. Campaign budget: $1,500,000. Two days later Nominee Roosevelt went to Sea Girt, N. J.. where Boss Frank Hague had massed 100,000 Democrats to hear him speak on Prohibition. Flaying the Republican plank for being "long, indirect, ambiguous, insincere, false,'' the Democratic nominee declared: "Words upon words...
With U. S. colleges opening in a month or so, many & many a student is counting his dollars, casting up his college budget. In nearly every institution he may apply for a loan, earn part or all of his living expenses. In inland districts there are colleges which will accept farm produce for tuition. If a student is unemployed but properly qualified he may take free courses at places like Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Washington University (St. Louis) or Lawrence College (Appleton, Wis.). Many another college, like the University of Missouri last week and the University of Iowa three weeks...
...life insurance numbers. Insurance men delight in rolling off the $108,800,000,000 of insurance in force, the industry's total resources of $21,000,000,000. That sum is larger than the U. S. national debt. The companies' annual income exceeds the normal Federal budget. Insurance men love to relate that U. S. insurance companies hold for investment more than 20% of all U. S. railroad bonds, 35% of all utility bonds, 35% of all industrial bonds, 22% of all farm mortgages. Two-thirds of the business is done by the ten largest companies of which...
Reasons: France's monetary gold supply; the most elaborate military system in the world, which cuts so deep into their budget and got them into all this mess. England's handsome and expensive navy, which they are unwilling to reduce; their prosperous world trade, daily increasing under the prestige of H.R.H.; also Great Britain produced five-sevenths of the world's gold last year. (TIME, July...