Word: deficits
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...that in Washington Secretary of Agriculture Wallace has evolved another plan. It would call for the creation of a large grain export corporation by the Government to purchase grain with Government money and sell it abroad by cutting prices and taking losses if necessary. On the following year this deficit would be made up by an excise tax on grain at the elevators. The theory is that if this year's surplus is entirely disposed of, next year's production can stand the burden of the tax divided over the entire crop...
James Parker (25), born in Paris of English parents, kept a mistress in luxury and had a good time in Montmartre. Suddenly his employers, the American Express Co., discovered a deficit of 475,000 francs (about $25,000) in his accounts. Parker was arrested...
...Shipping Board is looking for a new plan. Meanwhile it has advised President Coolidge that there is no prospect of managing the Government's fleet so as to avoid a deficit. Various factors in the cost of operating ships under American registry add a cost of $5 a ton over that on foreign ships. Therefore the best that the Board can hope to do, is to reduce an inescapable deficit...
...been committed. Los Angeles is most hard put, proportionately, with 16% of 164,000 pupils unseated. Chicago needs desks for 12% of 400,000. In Manhattan, where the hue and cry clamors loudly enough about the ears of Mayor Hylan to make of him an almost national figure, the deficit is less than 8%. Detroit and Minneapolis are large centers lacking only 3% or so, Cleveland 2%. On the grand average, about one child in ten must join the overflow classes in basement or improvised classroom...
...Cheat. The spectacle of a hot iron sinking into the white contours of Pola Negri's left shoulder- blade should be 50? worth to anybody. If it isn't there is little else in the picture to make up the deficit. Pola starts out in Paris, where she makes two errors of judgment. She incurs the displeasure of a nasty old Hindu; she marries an American newspaper man. The latter's salary, served as a double portion, Pola finds unsatisfactory nourishment. The Hindu re-enters and trouble begins...