Word: fiscales
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Just now that rate of armament is so high that Japan will have to strain hard not to lose ground. In fiscal 1939 Great Britain is spending $302,500,000 on new construction, the U. S. $211,113,000, Japan $16,420,950. Even allowing for the amount Japan saves on cheap labor and building costs, her present program is far from "equal to the strongest." Neither Britain nor the U. S. has planned six years ahead, but all indications are that at the end of that time their relative strength to Japan will be just about what...
Baiting an Administration's chief fiscal officer is no new pastime for hard-shelled, money-wise old Senator Glass. Neither is it for Mississippi's long-legged, long-nosed Pat Harrison. Together they were the most painful and damaging Democratic snipers on the flanks of the Harding, Coolidge and Hoover Administrations. Then their victims were shy old Andrew Mellon and Utah's mournful Reed Smoot, chairman of the Senate Finance Committee. Four years of responsibility as Senate Finance Chairman during the first New Deal and a lifetime habit of party loyalty changed Pat Harrison from a sniper...
...Government's fiscal picture must be carefully scanned, and that doesn't mean next year, but now-and . . . not through a colored lens. . . . I am opposed, unless exceptional circumstances arise, to increasing by law the present limit of the national debt. The only way . . . is to begin immediately a radical and substantial cut in Government expenditures...
...B.R.T., which went into receivership in 1918. It emerged as Brooklyn-Manhattan Transit Corp., which now operates a subway connecting Brooklyn and Manhattan and another between Manhattan and Queens, as well as numerous elevateds, bus routes and trolleys in Brooklyn and Queens. B.M.T. makes money ($4,508,462 in fiscal...
...which once (1912) made 90,523,766, went into receivership in 1932. Last fiscal year its deficit totaled $23,682,369 I R. T.'s condition can be laid partly to continuance of the 5? fare, which, since the World War boosted costs, has been insufficient to pay expenses. But mostly it is due to high dividends paid in the early days and to the staggering fixed costs of its fabulous 999-year lease of Manhattan s four outmoded elevateds...