Word: deficits
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Dragging a $156,710,400 deficit behind it the French budget moved from the Senate to the Chamber of Deputies last week. MM. les Deputies proceeded to increase the deficit by 846,000,000 francs and sent the budget back to the Senators again. Premier Daladier's is the job of forcing some sort of a compromise, and bringing the budget to final vote without losing his government, a business which Deputies, Senators and Cabinet all view with marked disfavor. Canny Socialist Deputies found a way of postponing the fateful day by attaching a rider to the budget giving...
...delay if French taxpayers have their way. Protests at the unbalanced budget poured into Paris from all quarters last week. The National Committee of Economic Understanding called upon all Paris shops to close for a half-day in protest. Wrote the sober Temps, even before the Chamber increased the deficit...
...French Premier, never too secure, becomes most critical at Budget time. France's budget, under consideration by the Senate for two weeks, comes up again for discussion by the Deputies this week. It cannot be balanced for 1953: as passed by the Senate last week it contained a deficit of $156,710,400. French Socialists under long-nosed Léon Blum served notice on the Radical-Socialist* Government of Premier Daladier that they would not support him unless the proposed cuts were restored in wounded veterans' and war widows' pensions, and in expenditures for social service...
...profit. Mr. Behn, who had watched I. T. & T.'s profits climb in six years from $1,930,000 to $17,732,000, now saw them tumble to less than half that sum, and finally sink out of sight into the bog of a three-million-dollar deficit. Gone were the days when an excited public was eager to pay $149 for I. T. & T. stock earning $3 a share. The stock earned nothing, sold...
...America. Cholera carried off $1,500 worth of pigs last year, and the unprecedented drought this spring probably means the loss of the year's crop. But the School survives such calamities as it has survived revolutions, wars, political crises and earthquakes, and has never had a deficit...