Word: deficits
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Charles Phelps Taft II amounted to more than $250,000. True, the women's Thank Offering came to $807,747. But the latter can be used only for future missionary work and the former makes only a 25% dent in the Church's $1,000,000 deficit...
Upperclassmen, who are annoyed to find empty tables in crowded dining halls reserved for men over twenty-one, will not be surprised to read this morning that the restoration of beer to the Houses threatens the College with a thousand dollar deficit. The early expectations that Harvard men would revel in absorbing large quantities of the beverage have been disappointed by the evidence...
...generations the Colgates ruled Colgate, their hegemony ending with the Palmolive-Peet merger in 1928. As late as 1931 the company was selling $90,000,000 worth of Palmolive, Cashmere Bouquet, Octagon soaps, tooth paste, shaving cream and whatnot. But profits dropped from $8,900,000 to a slight deficit in 1932. That was the signal for the return of the Colgates. S. (for Samuel; Bayard Colgate, 36, was elected president, and a management representing stock control stepped in. A quiet, clear-headed great-grandson of the founder, President Colgate has been house-cleaning ever since?with the result that...
...silk company in the U. S., Belding Heminway accounted for one-half the country's spool silk and no small share of its fabrics and hosiery. Nevertheless, Belding languished throughout the most florid years of the New Era. The net result of the bankers' touch was a deficit each year from 1928 through 1932, a decline in assets from $14,000,000 to $4,000,000 and a low for the stock...
Harvard Boat Club asks subscriptions to help lower the deficit and to help beat Yale...