Word: debts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Washington, D. C., visiting Philippine Assemblyman Villarama told newspapermen that there were only two things wrong with the United States: the national debt is too large and no one knows how to clean white shoes properly...
...wall by seven consecutive whopping deficits, its first eight months' operations this year showed a $2,709,000 net loss. Of its once lush freight business, about 50% was coal and 40% manufactured goods, and neither recovered from Depression I. With heavy fixed charges on a bonded debt of $51,198,000, the strain of depression was too much. But the straw that broke Jersey Central's back was taxes...
Undaunted, Gadfly Stokes offered himself as a Labor candidate for the House of Commons in his traditionally Conservative district, talked persuasively about how Britain could rearm not only on a "no profit and no loss" basis, but even without incurring any further interest-bearing public debt, for the Government, explained Candidate Stokes, could simply issue "interest-free money." Ipswich thought so well of all this that she sent her Gadfly to the House of Commons with a landslide majority in February...
...Liberals had no trouble making the point that Premier Duplessis had raised the conscription issue to cover the appalling state of Quebec's finances. Showing that the provincial public debt, having been $150,000,000 when the Union Nationale took over, was now at least $286,000,000, they made no specific charges but cleverly asked: "Where has it gone?" The Duplessis campaign promises began to get vague. Then the Federal Government came out against him: the three Quebec Liberals in the King Cabinet threatened to resign if he won, and spectacular Minister of Justice Ernest Lapointe, who might...
...salary was running at about $6,000 to $12,000 a year, had drawn $88,000 for "sales expenses" in that time without accounting for any of it; that the company was carrying him for an additional $21,000, other individuals for other loans; that it had guaranteed a debt of its subsidiary, Federal Laboratories...