Word: debt
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Governor Arnall cleaned up the state educational system, ended the pardon racket, virtually wiped out the state debt. He launched a vigorous and successful "pro-Georgia" campaign to lift the state's economic level...
...February 1933, Harold Le Claire Ickes stopped off in Washington to take in the sights and to see if, by chance, anybody in the New Deal wanted to pay off a political debt. During the campaign, Ickes had worked hard to organize Midwestern progressive Republicans for Franklin Roosevelt. But in the fever of preinauguration, nobody in the capital seemed to care-until Ickes bumped into an old friend who had connections. Next day Harold Ickes got a summons from the President-elect. "Mr. Ickes," said Franklin Roosevelt, "you and I have been speaking the same language for the past...
...year, cut costs by slashing his staff to the bone and boosted business by starting cut-rate coach service. In 4½-years, he pulled Capital out of its nose dive, climbed to a $1,756,490 profit in 1951, and cut the line's debt from...
...present rate of spending, the Bank of England's gold and dollar hoard (down to a precarious $2.3 billion) will have melted away by midsummer. The vast sterling area, which accounts for a quarter of the world's population and half its trade, is heavily in debt. Last week nine Commonwealth Finance Ministers, meeting in London's gloomy old Treasury Building, pledged their countries to earn more and spend less, in an effort to balance the family budget by the end of 1952. Each member nation would slash imports, increase exports, try to control inflation; the sterling...
...your burden and your responsibility . . . The pauper who needs you today was yesterday one of the taxpayers who helped build and maintain our great [University of Oklahoma] School of Medicine, where the doctors of today and tomorrow receive their education. You will be a long time paying this debt...