Word: budgets
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...steel rails, 240 spikes and 28 poles. Total cost: 4,780 yen. Thus, if the Paoting farmers keep up their twice-a-week raids, they will cost the Japanese half a million yen a year. If 1,000 villages do the same, Japan will have to increase her army budget half a billion yen a year, reason the guerrillas. Therefore, 2,000 organizers have recently been sent out to carry on concerted rail-raiding parties...
...reported a membership of 4,037,877 (before deducting I. L. G. W.'s 250.000); three-year receipts of $3.540.385.62; expenditure of $3,510,954.93; balance on hand. $29,430.69. Most significant claim: that C. I. O. has balanced its budget with incomes from dues, no longer depends on subsidies from its wealthy unions such as Mr. Lewis' United Mine Workers, Amalgamated Clothing Workers...
This week Elmer Andrews takes to the White House a deficiency budget. It calls for about $800,000 to finance his division from mid-January to June 30, 1939, indicates that he will have to have about 1,500 employes and $4,000,000 a year for the enforcement...
...case, say the chains, any process that gets food to people at cheaper prices means not that higher-priced independents lose business but that more food is consumed, since the average housewife with a limited food budget will spend just so much regardless of prices. Increased sales volume, say the chains, means that crop surpluses threaten less frequently and can be disposed of when they arise, thus stabilizing farm prices...
Much more interesting than these generally recognized weaknesses in American twentieth century economy are Rogers' chapters on the anti-inflationists, the perennial budget-balancers, and on the rapid growth of interstate commercial restrictions. Inflation, as exemplified by the devaluation of the dollar, he prescribes as a possible means of relieving a contracted credit situation. In a one-act play, he gives a cross section of public reasoning on the inflation question, which is dominated by Al Smith's "I am for gold dollars as against baloney dollars!" Possibly Professor Rogers' most valuable discussion is that which deals with the national...