Word: deficits
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Emerging after seven months at Advance Base, Admiral Byrd came home to a hero's welcome, rested up and embarked on a lecture tour to pay off his expedition's $100,000 deficit. When the long tour ends in May, the Admiral, who, while changing trains in his blue uniform has sometimes been taken for a porter or stationmaster, will have told 1,250,000 people in 250 cities about the South Pole. It was during a lull in this tour that Hero Byrd again thought of peace. He publicly promised last summer to "start my work...
...largest shareholders, holding 35%, but fear Italy has bought up nearly enough shares elsewhere to own stock control of this 494 miles of rail, linking Addis Ababa with the French port of Djibouti. Last week, according to the French, Il Duce had forced the road into a deficit for the first time in 14 years by ordering Viceroy Graziani last year to "ship nothing by rail on which freight has to be paid," using motor transport instead. Inadequacy of this was said to account in part for food scarcity in Italian bases...
...yearly deficit has always been one of the problems the Clinic has had to face, since it practices none of the work that brings gold to the pockets of other dentists. If the Clinic did more of the work for students instead of farming it out to other men, there would be at least the possibility of relieving congestion and balancing the budget...
...preferred stockholders, who have had no dividends for nine years* was the parent company's report. Net income for 1936 was $10,172,000, compared with 36,532,000 the year before. But the stockholders can hope for no dividends until U. S. Rubber Co.'s accumulated deficit is wiped out. Even after last year's profit the deficit stood at $17,332,000, but that represented a reduction from a high...
...name of W. Forbes Morgan as one of the great pillars of the Democratic Party. Last year Mr. Morgan, the Democrats' national treasurer, tried a new method of raising Democratic dollars. Last week that method was used again, to raise funds to reduce the $430,000 Democratic campaign deficit. From coast to coast 1,262 Victory Dinners were held. To every dinner where the price was $5 a plate or more, the Democratic Speakers Bureau dispatched a Senator, a Congressman or other notable Democrat, the rank of the speaker being roughly proportioned to the price of admission...