Word: hand-to-mouth
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...cotton seed (per ton) for the hand-to-mouth citizenry whose domestic economy has brought them scarcely enough to run their 1927 automobiles since...
Proud as Punch of his double victory, Premier Daladier announced that he would go to London March 15 "to discuss war debts and other major international problems" with Prime Minister James Ramsay MacDonald. After that it will be necessary to make an end of hand-to-mouth financing and really balance France's budget...
...Orleans was thrown into uproar. With banks closed, Saturday night payrolls were not met. Many Negro laborers, living hand-to-mouth, could not buy food. Department stores flatly refused to cash checks. Until news of the holiday-making conference leaked out, newspaper offices were swamped with inquiries from mystified subscribers wanting to know what it was all about...
...hand-to-mouth policies of recent administrations, such as Mellon's failure to reduce bonded indebtedness as much as possible at a time when he was able to reduce taxes, have left the present administration with the necessity of cutting costs when fixed charges are higher than ever. While it is an unpopular theme to advance, it might safely be said that, despite waste, this country does not spend enough of its national income on government costs. Although such expenses as the department of commerce or appropriations for harbors or unnecessary veteran expenditures might well be cut, it would...
...legislation. The rump session last April at which no impeachments were promised failed to budge him (TIME, May 4). The State deficit had passed the $3,000,000 mark, was bowling along toward $7,000,000 by the year's end. With tax collections off, only by hand-to-mouth borrowing from lenient bankers could the State keep its institutions halfway going. A serious crisis is anticipated in December when $6,000,000 in State obligations fall...