Word: budgets
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Caracas Cathedral to dedicate 400,000 bolivars ($104,000) of restorations. On the sidewalks citizens yelled them selves hoarse. Was their President not El Benemerito, the Meritorious One? Had he not made a record in 25 years that no Hitler, no Mussolini could match? Venezuela had a balanced budget and a surplus of $13,00,000 in the national treasury. Her money is the soundest in the world. Not a single foreigner owns a Venezuelan government bond. There is practically no unemployment. Farmers pay no land taxes at all and may borrow up to 50% of the value of their...
...business. With Secretary Hull in Montevideo, Postmaster General Farley in Europe, two clays later the President discovered that for the first time in his Administration he could hold no Friday Cabinet meeting. There was no quorum. ¶Lewis Douglas went to the White House to talk Budget. He figured the Government would take in 3½ billions next year, disburse 2½ billions normally, have a billion left over to reduce the national debt for the first time in five years (TIME, Dec. 4). The President talked about a five-billion budget, spending another 2½ billion on public works...
...ultimatum, it is a declaration that the B.A.A. has reached the end of its rope, that the process of cutting and cutting and then cutting some more, can go no further, that from this point on it is up to the Corporation to say how the athletic budget shall be balanced...
Green at his job of Finance Minister is plump, owlish Dr. H. H. Kung. Last week he buckled to the task of trying to balance China's budget with a sternness remindful of his great ancestor, China's uncompromising sage Confucius...
Gene Vidal (pronounced Vee-dahl) would not have traded places with Col. Young or anyone else. As head man of U. S. civil aviation in the New Deal his job was far bigger than that of either of his predecessors. Although his budget was slashed this year from $7,660,000 to $5,172,000, and his own salary cut to $8,000, Gene Vidal had a pot of new gold handy in the form of Public Works Administration money. Never before had civil aeronautics a chance to receive so many millions for subsidy. Not since 1929 had the industry...