Word: budgets
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Looking over canny Neville Chamberlain's new budget (see below), observers suddenly discovered an unaccounted ?11,000,000 which may be used for emergency military expenditures without increasing taxation...
...exceed 30% of the combined air forces of Germany's neighbors, or 50% of the French air force (2,286 planes) at once, and full air equality with Germany's neighbors to begin after five years. To the world's alarm, Germany's 1934 budget adds some 40% to her army appropriation, triples the 1933 outlay for air defenses - an increase of 352,000,000 marks...
April 19. France, aroused by the figures in Germany's new budget sends a last stinging note to the British Government...
...salmon fishing holiday in Scotland (see cut), entered the House to deliver the speech for which all were breathlessly waiting. Because he was bringing the best news Britain has heard since 1931, Neville Chamberlain blew himself to a new brief case of gleaming yellow pigskin to carry the precious budget of 1934. By tradition Britain's budget is always supposed to be contained in a red morocco box on the Speaker's table. Chancellor Chamberlain slipped his few typewritten pages from brief case to the budget box before addressing the Speaker and the House...
...Where else in the world," asked he, "can you find a country which has been able to show a substantial surplus in its budget for two successive years? . . . Japan has a deficit of ?46,000,000, Italy and France of ?75,000,000 apiece. The United States where they always do things on a much bigger scale, have a deficit of ?1,416,000,000, but the United States have such large reserves that deficits do not trouble them...