Word: budgeted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...budget, drawn up annually by the Council to arrange, for assistance of worthy charities, will be under the direction of Chalfant, in accordance with a precedent established last year, when John Cross '30, treasurer of the Council, had charge of this part of the Council's program...
...Farbenindustrie. Now Germany im ports no nitrate from Chile, but exports each year about $50,000,000 worth of synthetic nitrogen. This was a notable triumph for science; it provided a valuable stimulus to the German post-War recovery; but for Chile it was disastrous. Backbone of the Chilean budget is the export tax on nitrates. Frantically, the producers association played with price-fixing, abandoned it, watched the synthetic competition mount, in Germany, in the U. S., until in 1929 Chile provided only 25% of the world production of all forms of nitrates. A new threat loomed at Hopewell...
...forthcoming a most awkward series of rebates and payments has to ensue between the state and people who have imported goods meanwhile, but such is the law. At Ottawa last week Finance Minister Charles Avery Dunning raised a terrific commotion in the Dominion Parliament by bringing in a budget the chief feature of which was 500 tariff changes, the whole so controversial that it seems likely to be much modified before being voted and submitted for the rubber stamp of Royalty. In a fiery speech against the bill Leader Richard Bedford Bennett of the Conservative opposition accused Mr. Dunning...
...second, vital feature of Mr. Dunning's budget is to broaden greatly the list of goods on which Canada extends to the mother country what is called "Imperial Preference." A double-barreled example is agricultural machinery. If shipped from the U. S. it will have to pay from 6 to 20% duties under the Dunning budget, but if shipped from Britain it will enter Canada free by "Imperial Preference...
...opening salvo in what is bound to be a long, acrimonious booming of political big guns, the Finance Minister mildly said: "This budget is frankly framed to enable us to buy more freely from those countries which buy from us most freely. . . . I speak in no spirit of retaliation. I would much rather extend lower tariff favors to those who extend them...