Word: deficit
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Street. How did the 16 countries propose to amortize this vast and steadily accumulating deficit? Actually, they said, the recovery program which it would set under way would "reduce the dollar deficit progressively." For example, 1948's deficit would be $8.04 billion; 1951's would be $3.4 billion. Along with a reduction of imports would go an expanding export trade with the Americas and other countries of the world...
...Oakland. It wasn't half as much fun. Remembering his father's advice, Bob Sproul stuck it out only a year-long enough to marry the girl at the next desk (says he: "I'm the victim of propinquity"). When the university cashier absconded, creating a deficit and a vacancy, Bob Sproul joyfully went back to college. He has been there ever since...
...professor. Laundry bills run high, especially for towels, the players always want more to eat, calling for steak when they get roast beef, and incidentals cost tremendously. Services and wages before the war totalled $80,000. Now they have nearly doubled. All in all, the H.A.A. suffered a deficit last year of $90,000, of which the University absorbed $50,000. The rest was carried over into...
...bring its dollar trade into balance, the Dominion Government is going to cut imports from the U.S., even though it means lowering the Canadian standard of living. In seven months (January-July) Canada bought $573 million more from the U.S. than she sold there. At that rate the deficit would be almost $1 billion by year...
...Right now there is an annual deficit of twelve million tons of coke in Western Europe. [But] we have been able to wipe out this deficit by simple cooperation. . . . We have recommended that henceforth no more coke shall be used for heating houses or stoking factory boilers. All available European coke is to go straight into steelmaking. . . . Blast furnaces shall use more scrap. . . . Germany is littered with scrap...