Word: deficits
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...this bill serves no other purpose, it will at least demonstrate to the country that the extravagant and wasteful expenditures of the Democratic Administration cannot be met merely by 'soaking the rich.' ... It falls $3,305,000,000 short of meeting the deficit for the last fiscal year. Even as a redistribution of wealth measure, it would provide but $2.25 for each of our 120,000,000 people...
...Steel's loss for the six months was $2,936,000 against a deficit of $1,639,000 in the same period last year. Taken by the quarters, the results were not so bad as they appeared. Whereas U. S. Steel lost $2,173,000 in the first quarter of 1935, its deficit for the second quarter was only $762,000. Better still was the operating profit per ton of steel. On each of 3,553,999 tons delivered, the company made an operating profit of about $7.50 against $5.36 for the full year 1934. Thus it was clear...
Wheeling . . 1,602,000 1,076,000 (D = deficit...
Aggregate yield: less than $250,000,000 or about 7% of the present deficit...
Depression was hard on the fountain pen business. Sheaffer had a $676,000 deficit in 1933. Common dividends stopped. Business improved the following year and for the fiscal year ending Feb. 28, 1935 the company announced a net profit of $442,000. Last week Sheaffer Pen celebrated Walter Sheaffer's 68th birthday by moving up from the New York Curb Exchange to the New York Stock Exchange, listing 162,355 shares of common stock on which the dividend ($1) was resumed last March. Said portly, affable President Sheaffer: "Business is satisfactory, very satisfactory...