Word: budgets
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...75th Congress, which was to have helped balance the Budget, last week went home having written its John Hancock boldly across the page of U. S. history. For to the 75th, as to the 73rd five years ago, Franklin Delano Roosevelt gave his word that an Emergency faced the U. S., and the 75th responded to that magic word as the 73rd never dreamed of doing. In 154 days ending last week, the 75th succeeded in appropriating $12,321,635,000, more than any session of Congress has ever appropriated in time of peace. Breakdown of the appropriations...
...Balance the Budget...
...Peru, 482,133 square miles sloping away on both sides of the snowcapped, towering Andes, operates on a budget ostensibly balanced, but one which does not show its borrowings and its failure to service its sizable debt. Sweden and Finland are the only two nations with orthodox balanced budgets. Almost self-sufficient in raw materials except for wheat, rice and steel, Peru enjoys a favorable foreign trade balance ($35,400,000 in 1936) largely through extensive exports of cotton, sugar, silver, oil, copper, vanadium and the high-smelling guano (bird manure). Social reforms were pushed by the late, ironfisted, dapper...
...mills to working under the N. R. A. Which means shorter hours, and much more pay. He's made his stand, and you know he's tried; He's made many friends on the Republican side; He's balanced the budget with revenue; He's brought back whiskey and the three point two. An older one. called the Tennessee Evolution Song, commemorates Tennessee's famous Scopes Trial: Then to Dayton came a man with his ideas so grand, And he said we sprang from monkeys long ago; But in teaching his belief Mr. Scopes...
...than most studios is Paramount, which ranges from experimental cinemopera like Rouben Mamoulian's High, Wide and Handsome to loose-jointed sophomoric trifles like College Swing, Turn Off the Moon. Paramount's net income for last year was $6,045,103. This year's budget, covering 58 planned features, allows for but one million-dollar film, Men with Wings. Paramount's most important trend will be toward romantic U. S. history, with Union Pacific and The Texans. Other specials: If I Were King, with Ronald Colman; Knights of the Round Table; The Grade Allen Murder Case...