Word: budgets
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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After its first meeting of the year the Student Council last night announced the collection for its Budget of the largest sum since 1931. During the three days of registration the Council collected $4,578.75 in cash and obtained $4,099 in pledges, a total...
...permitted a week of domestic calm. Last week, before Congress met, he got on the bell-rope again. He upped the Coast Guard's personnel by 2,000, for coastal peace patrol. Undenied was a story that his State, War & Navy Departments had whacked up a precautionary war budget of $20,000,000,000 for a single year, $2,000,000,000 of it for further increases in the military forces, when & if necessary. The Gallup index to his personal popularity leaped from 56.6% in August to 61%-only 1.5% short of his re-election majority in 1936. Finally...
...until 1920 did Pilsudski insure Polish independence by smashing Russia's invasion; not until 1926 was Poland's political regime stable and its budget balanced. Thus Poland had only 13 years of reconstruction. Ten of them were years of bitter, world-wide depression. In these years...
...Nearly half kept a budget; three-fourths had financial plans, often inadequate, for their...
First effect of this uncertainty on Hollywood, which has already written off the German and Italian box offices, once 10% of its foreign gross, was a scaling down of costs on current productions. Director Wesley Ruggles, rather than shave his $2,000,000 budget for Arizona, shelved the picture. Other producers planned to whittle future budgets over $600,000 down to fit domestic box-office expectations. Since the greater part of production cost is in salaries and overhead, decreased budgets in the long run would inevitably mean tightening the belt in Hollywood's corporate scale of living...