Word: fiscality
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...43rd issue of the Salvation Army Yearbook, published by the international headquarters in London and released in the U.S. last week, records-as far as figures can-the good fight that Booth's troops have fought. During the past fiscal year the Army has given out 33,772,383 meals and 10,941,102 beds, found jobs for 77,766, operated 415 shelters, hostels and food depots, maintained 94 maternity homes and 26 industrial and boarding schools. Commissioned officers and cadets increased by 4,294 (to 32,105), and 15,205 laymen were employed fulltime...
Swing to the Left. This week the President tried to answer that question with his budget message for fiscal 1949. With an expected federal income of $44.5 billion, the President recommended expenditures of $39.7 billion (up $1.9 billion over last year). Major items: $11 billion for defense, $7 billion for international commitments, $6 billion for veterans, $5 billion for interest on the debt. Also included in the proposed expenditures was a $1.3 billion chunk to start the wheels rolling on the new domestic legislation the President had proposed. The expected $4.8 billion surplus, said Harry Truman firmly, should be used...
...willingly would American citizens shoulder the financial obligations of such proposals? The cost of peacetime security in a modern world has become a Sinbad's burden, exhausting and unshakable. The commission's proposals would mean a national outlay amounting to $82.46 per person in fiscal 1949, as much as $122.45 in 1953. In 1801, when the infant U.S. was surrounded by enemies, the levy per person which was considered sufficient for defense amounted to 72? (in days-of-Jefferson values...
...long as two years ago, when costs were lower. Said President Harry Warner: "The pictures now being released were produced at high costs . . . with the decline in domestic and foreign receipts. . . ." The decline, said Warner, was shown in the first quarter (which ended in November) of Warners' current fiscal year. Earnings were estimated at less than half of what they were in the preceding year. This was because of the cut in British receipts and the box-office drop...
...July 27, Republican estimates of the amount of money saved by Congress ranged from $700,000,000 to $7,000,000,000. But by the end of the special session in December it was a hard and uncomfortable fact that Congress had appropriated $37,728,000,000 for the fiscal year...