Word: deficits
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week, when Pilgrim held its 45th annual stockholders meeting, Gus Anderson and all the other employes crowded into its cheery cafeteria (green walls, cretonne curtains) to hear how their management was running their business. Gus and his fellows learned that the company had run up a $10,000 deficit on a 1938 gross of $82,600. But Pilgrim had laid off no regular worker, paid its regular dividends, maintained a 7% wage increase granted in 1937 (average wage: $25.53 a week...
Next day the Governor appeared before the Legislature to tell how he proposed 1) to reduce his State's $20,000,000 deficit, and 2) redeem his campaign pledge to provide 830 monthly pensions for Texas' needy old folks. Stony-faced sat the legislators as he began reading his message, which he had typed out sitting on an apple box in his dismantled house while the O'Daniel family moved into the Governor's mansion...
...TIME, Jan. 23), Redder still was the face of Governor George D. Aiken of small, thrifty Vermont last week when, after discovery of an error by his finance commission, a surplus of $653,000 for 1941, which he had happily forecast in his budget message, became a deficit...
...Kaylor lined up all of Barrington's civic bodies behind the plan, including the principal churches (Methodist, Catholic, Christian Science). Although a collection was to be taken to finance the Town Warming, no one expected it to amount to much: Jewel Tea Co. would make up the deficit. The plan itself was simply to get as many Barringtonites as possible to go to a series of lectures (free to all regardless of "economic status, or any other reason") in the High School Auditorium, with an invocation by a local minister and community singing...