Word: deficits
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...cannot in honesty assert to you that to increase that deficit this year by two billion two hundred million dollars will in itself bankrupt the United States. Today the credit of the United States is safe. But it cannot ultimately be safe if we engage in a policy of yielding to each & all of the groups that are able to enforce upon the Congress claims for special consideration. We can afford all that we need; but we cannot afford all that we want. I do not need to be a prophet to assert that if these certificates...
...rooms, consumed champagne, soda pop, candies, ice cream, cigars. Richard Gimbel carried his money-making zeal into the bargain basement of the Philadelphia store. Shrewd, lusty, Richard became store manager at 30, often boasts of the fact that he pulled the store out of a $1,700,000 deficit in three years...
...Chicago, while men patrons pleaded for a bar as a means of increasing both enjoyment and attendance at Symphony concerts, the Orchestral Association watched over the progress of the public plea for funds, second in 29 years, to cover the $28,000 remainder of a two-year deficit. While it looked as though the Symphony's deficit would be smartly erased, the bar problem remained...
...hard & long to get pledges of some $60,000 for another season under popular Conductor Eugene Ormandy. Philadelphians rubbed their hands with satisfaction knowing that fair-haired Leopold Stokowski would definitely return for twelve weeks next season to conduct "our eloquent and unique orchestra." But this year's deficit was nearly $250,000. In an effort to avert a similar deficit next season, new Manager Alfred Reginald Allen announced that next season's subscriptions would be offered on an installment plan. 20% down, the rest payable in eight monthly installments. Whether or not Philadelphia's excellent opera...
...last year lost $2,059. (In 1933 it lost $30,127.) Special publications-including the erudite Archives of Internal Medicine, the stupendous Quarterly Cumulative Index Medicus (cumulative index of significant articles in 1,300 medical publications), the 11-lb. Directory of U.S. and Canadian doctors-piled up a total deficit of $72,458 last year...