Word: budgeteer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...refer to co-operative cold storage lockers. They were first introduced on the Pacific Coast some five years ago when a group of alert farmers decided to preserve their own meat, fruit and vegetables the year round on a budget they could afford even in depression times...
...Kansas City (Kans.) Senator got back into form on the subject of Governor Landon's famed balanced budget and the means by which it was achieved. Pointing out that the New Deal had poured $460,000,000 of Federal money into the State, Joe McDonald heckled: "That Santa Claus in Washington has given the State of Kansas eight times what you've ever raised here, and laugh that off over there on the other side of the House...
...Insurance now being taken out against King Edward's marriage prior to his Coronation next spring boomed so heavily last week that Lloyd's quotation shortened from odds of 11-to-1 to 5-to-1. This sort of thing, in view of the recent Budget leak insurance scandal (TIME, May 4 et seq.), caused British eyebrows to up sharply with queries on whether there has been a marriage leak. Stoutly Lloyd's maintained that they thought there was no speculative position last week but only a rush to cover "legitimate trade risks...
...Received from terse Chancellor of the Exchequer Neville Chamberlain the bad news that Britain's current "phenomenal rates of expenditure" for armaments "have made practically certain that there will be a deficit in the Budget...
...yowl of Republicans for Government economy and budget-balancing was answered in four nonchalant sentences: "We are determined to reduce the expenses of Government. We are being aided therein by the recession in unemployment. As the requirements of relief decline and national income advances, an increasing percentage of Federal expenditures can and will be met from current revenues, secured from taxes levied in accordance with ability to pay. Our retrenchment, tax and recovery programs thus reflect our firm determination to achieve a balanced budget and the reduction of the national debt at the earliest possible moment...