Word: deficits
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...asked bewildered floorwalkers what it was all about. But the four strange shoppers went on about their business. They were assembling a kitchen orchestra for part of the thank-you concert that the Chicago Symphony was giving the patrons who had subscribed $59,340 toward the $70,000 deficit. At the concert, motherly Mrs. Stock laughed until she wheezed. She had never known that her Frederick and his men could clown so. For one act the bassoon choir came out like monks and played an intermezzo; for another, little Carl Rink aped a violin prodigy while the other musicians played...
...heard at every educators' conference for the past three years. "It is quite as important to balance the nation's life as to balance the nation's budget," cried University of Wisconsin's President Glenn Frank. "It is quite as important to prevent a social deficit for the future as to wipe out a financial deficit in the present...
Year ago Britain had a deficit of ?32,279,000. In announcing his very stiff budget for the year Neville Chamberlain hoped publicly for a surplus of ?1,300,000 but privately was ready to consider himself lucky if the budget balanced. In Scotland last week Chancellor Chamberlain went over the figures carefully to see where he had made his happy mistake...
...resistance with advertisements boldly captioned: To the Man Who is Afraid to Let His Dreams Come True. But during Depression the number of such fearful men grew so great that Rolls-Royce sales since 1931 fell off over 50% to $926,000. Last week, after four years of Depression deficits, Rolls-Royce hit upon a brand new idea. President John S. Inskip put on display in Manhattan a hybrid 'luxury" car, the Brewster "Cabriolet de Ville," with which he hoped to develop a new market. It had a Brewster body, a Ford chassis, a Ford V-8 engine. Price...
...Ownership of Canadian National is represented by a single share of stock registered in the name of George V and deposited in Ottawa. His Majesty's investment is a notoriously poor one. Last year C. N. R. operated at a $52,000,000 deficit...