Word: deficits
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...foreign governments. In Europe the subsidies average $1 a mile flown, with little return in the form of postage. In the U. S. the mock subsidy also averages $1 a flying mile. But 5? an ounce postage reduces Government expense to a mere $3,000,000 Post Office deficit...
...beards of Hans Sachs, Wotan, Hagen, King Mark. He has signed a contract to make sound-cinemas, believes that "everyone will soon be running to the cinema to take their music in this new form." In Chicago Louis Eckstein wrote a check for $103,458.50, half the deficit of the Ravinia Opera so that an ardently enthusiastic Chicago public might continue to have summer opera. Said he: "Art pays dividends in beauty. It cannot be expected to pay in material things...
Mounting postal deficits have caused President Hoover much anxiety. This year's loss is estimated at $100,000,000. The President instructed Postmaster General Walter Folger Brown to discover the causes of, to devise remedies for, these deficits (TIME, July 22). An audit of the scrambled costs of maintaining the different classes of postal service is now in progress. Last week Postmaster General Brown prepared to call into an October conference the big users of first-class mail, particularly direct-mail advertisers. Quickly spread the firm belief that the Department would recommend as a deficit-extinguisher an increase...
Like everyone else. Senator Moses recognized that the congressional franking privilege and the "penalty" mail of the U. S. departments inflates the deficit. His remedy: "Congress and the departments ought to have special stamps which they would pay for the same as others. The stamps used by members of Congress would be charged up to the expenses of the legislative branch and the executive stamps would be paid for out of appropriations for the respective executive departments...
Last week's example of the use of a congressional frank and its effect on the postal deficit: in June Senator William Edgar Borah made a speech in behalf of the debenture plan of farm relief, against the Hoover plan (now-adopted). It sounded politically good to the Democrats whose National Committee secured Senator Borah's permission to use it and the Borah frank for distribution. The Democrats' only expense was for reprinting the speech. The Democratic National Committee sent out 1,000,000 copies to husbandmen throughout the land. Declared Senator Borah: 'That...