Word: deadweight
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...news from out of the West is going to solve the problem of what to do with Memorial Hall. Old "Mem" need no longer be regarded as a deadweight on the shoulders of an otherwise progressive University...
...expenditures," i. e., payment of pensions and interest or reparations loans, attributable to Germany under the terms of the Treaty of Versailles. This Special Budget calls for $639,324,000 and as the French do not expect the Germans to pay any of this sum is will be a deadweight burden. The ordinary budget, however, places the sum of $157,500,000 at the disposal of the Special Budget. Thus, the deficit for reparations after subtracting the advance from the ordinary budget and the surplus on the ordinary budget, will leave the Government faced with a deficit...
...said that two-thirds of the Government fleet could be put into commission at a maximum cost of $5 a ton, deadweight, and at least half of it ultimately sold to foreign buyers at $10 a ton less than they can now build similar vessels...
...Shipping Board, guaranteeing to operate them immediately and to deposit an initial payment of $90,000 in escrow in a responsible bank. The offer was rejected by Chairman Lasker of the Shipping Board on the ground that the bid was below the minimum selling price of $30 per deadweight ton fixed by the Board's policy. Mr. Lasker said he would consider the sale if the union would meet the minimum requirements...
Other facts in Mr. Baldwin's speech: Last year's surplus was $471,975,000 and had already been applied to a reduction of debt. The deadweight national debt at March 31,1922, was approximately $35,460,900,000; at March 31, 1923, it stood at the approximate figure of $36,144,450,000; paradoxically the national debt had been decreased by about $695,000,000, the increase being due to interior disturbing factors. The external debt stood at about $5,156,935,560 at the end of the financial year 1921-1922; this year it is about...