Word: deficit
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Symphony Orchestra will broadcast every Sunday afternoon the year around, beginning May 23. The network: the full CBS coast-to-coast hookup of more than 130 stations. The sponsor: U.S. Rubber. The contract will give the orchestra a chance to pare, or even write off, its $150,000 annual deficit, usually met by hard-squeezed private purses...
...quadrupled its 1942 earnings, hit $16,100,000- a 14-year high. The wobbly Rock Island did likewise, pushing its net up to $8,800,000 (v. $2,300,000 last year); Denver & Rio Grande jumped from $463,000 to $2,474,000; Great Northern turned a $92,000 deficit into a juicy $1,991,000 profit. Of 22 roads to report last week, not one showed a drop in earnings...
Profit & Loss. I.T. & T.'s report showed consolidated net earnings for 1942 of $2,142,545 v. a $193,218 loss in 1941. The debt-ridden parent holding company still showed a net loss of $1,021,537 v. a $2,568,862 deficit the year before. After three years of a war which seemed to be conducted on the principle of overrunning I.T. & T. properties one by one, the 39-page report showed that just about every thing bad that could hit the company had already hit. The only...
John Bricker qualifies under Rule 5: as Governor he has been a success. By contrast with his predecessor, Tree Surgeon Martin Davey, he has been spectacularly able. Natty, spatty Martin Davey left Ohio nearly bankrupt, with a $40,000,000 deficit and payrolls loaded with spoilsmen...
...fired 3,000 Davey employes, cut the state payroll by $3,000,000, smashed the "legal rackets" that Davey's spoilsmen had enjoyed. He made good appointments. He became known, with reason, as Honest John Bricker. Within two years, he turned Ohio's $40,000,000 deficit into a $25,000,000 surplus...