Word: budgets
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...games will be held this year not on the Austrian front as usual but in Sicily, one of the island bases from which Italy would operate if she were out to control the Mediterranean; 2) Italy's new warboats, provided in the big new "defense" budget, will be designed to make Italy's fleet capable of operating beyond the Mediterranean, on the high seas which England now dominates...
...target of a shower of slings and arrows, the course has rarely been pricked so hard and so often as this year. The instructors are tempted to hide behind an old shield, their lack of time to give to the students due to the painful crimping of the Department budget, but a large missile marked "disorganization" cannot be thus dodged...
...University in making up its new budget must face these pressing demands sooner or later, and a quick elimination of these persisting relics of a past will promote the efficiency of ordinary college life...
...Hirota four months ago and installed a "gold braid" Cabinet of generals and admirals, swashbuckling new Premier General Senjuro Hayashi has been twirling his handlebar mustaches menacingly at Japan's civilian Diet. The Diet's Minseito (majority) and Seiyukai (minority) parties were induced to swallow the largest budget in impoverished Japan's history, $802,400,000, of which more than one-half is earmarked for the Army & Navy. Last month Swashbuckler Hayashi's mustaches stiffened when the Diet finally turned stubborn, let it be known it would not pass one of Hayashi's pet measures...
...nautical Gay Street, where the Sun soon moved from its first quarters. Publisher Abell looked out on a teeming and sometimes boisterous communal life. Every night, watchmen plied their staves so briskly on the skulls of yowling Baltimore drunks that a rich budget of police court news was always available in the morning. Publisher Abell broke the journalistic tradition against handling such stories, served them up in his columns hot and strong. Baltimoreans liked this kind of "light for all" so well that within a year the infant Sun had 12,000 readers, by far the biggest circulation in town...