Word: deficits
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...days before, the Treasury had reported an estimated Post Office deficit of $52,000,000. Newspapers which had blazoned "General" Farley's surplus announcement in front page headlines were soon pointing out the discrepancy in their editorial columns, explaining how the surplus had been arrived at by a bookkeeping trick. No one paid much attention...
...Farley, it now appeared, was ready to be called "the greatest Postmaster General since Benjamin Franklin." But last week Ashmun N. Brown, alert Washington correspondent for the Providence Journal, dug out of the Treasury report the old fact of the Post Office's $52,000,000 deficit. Explanation of the Farley surplus, he showed, lay in the vague and inconspicuous phrase about "adjustments" for "certain subventions and free mailing services." That covered Post Office expenditures of $64,000,000?the cost of ocean and air mail subsidies, the estimated cost of carrying free government mail. To create his surplus...
...threaten to withdraw their ministers, without which no Japanese Cabinet can exist. In the bitter dawn. War Minister General Senjuro Hayashi and Navy Minister Admiral Mineo Osumi hurled this final threat and Finance Minister Fujii crumpled, accepting their demands which means saddling Japan with a 750,000,000 yen deficit. Three days later Mr. Fujii abruptly resigned "suffering from a nervous and physical breakdown," according to his doctors, who said they were injecting him with camphor oil. Grimly the fighting services prepared to jam their budget through the Diet anyhow, circulated dire threats of what will happen to deputies...
...centrifugal refrigerating compressor which has been a potent factor in building Carrier prestige. He works hard, is absent-minded about meals and haircuts, likes to hunt and fish. In 1929 his companies did nearly $8,000,000 worth of business, earned. $672,000. Last year there was a deficit of $673,000. This year volume is up nearly...
Alfred Hertz gave Impresario Gaetano Merola good cause last week to worry over his budget. For years the San Francisco Opera ran no deficit. Last season there was one of some $30,000. Merola often undertakes a performance with next to no rehearsals; Hertz demands many. But as the solid old German stood in the pit last week, sweat gleaming from his bald pate, his beard pointing eagerly toward the stage. San Franciscans forgot all about dollars and deficits in the fine sweep of his orchestral performance...