Word: deficit
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When Bruening faced a budget deficit, the Reichstag refused to support his demand for additional taxation. In desperation, the bespectacled Chancellor asked President von Hindenburg to issue an emergency edict under Article 48 of the Weimar Constitution...
...moment's reflection! It is only nations deficient in intelligence and moral purpose that can conceive no conclusion of conflict except the crushing of an enemy, even when that enemy is ready to renounce a wicked leadership. And in this case, the cost of such mental and moral deficit (responsibility for which must lie heavily on our universities as well as on Washington) must be the ruin of Europe in long drawn out war and the endless slaughter of our youth. The best of England has no such desire. Can we not summon up in ourselves an idea...
...State leased the line to Norfolk Southern, got it back in 1935 when Norfolk Southern (in receivership) could not keep up the rent. Under State operation again, the A. & N.C. was a red-ink factory. Only by forgetting about repairs was the State able to hold its four-year deficit down...
...first year, after paying the $60,500 rent, he got by with a $3,975 deficit. Last week he reported his earnings for the second year: a net profit (after rent...
I.M.M. spent the whole 1931-40 decade in the red, rolled up a balance sheet deficit of $27,000,000. Now the deficits are probably over. Although it lost seven ships (owned by a Belgian affiliate) to Nazi torpedoes, four crack liners to the Army and Navy, it will have at least 23 new money-making freighters to more than fill the hole. In the first half of this year, I.M.M.'s U.S. Lines cleared over $2,000,000, against only $371,000 last year...