Word: offsets
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...reported last week, would be an estimated $5,665,839,000-$12,000,000 over his previous estimate-in spite of a $668,000,000 loss of AAA and Bituminous Coal Conservation Act taxes and a deferment of certain Social Security Act collections. These losses would be more than offset by $410,000,000 in additional funds from the Revenue Act of 1936; $33,000,000 in delayed collections on the Railroad Retirement Act; and a jump of $237,000,000 in general revenues because of better business...
...nation's Presidential Electoral College plan. Each of Georgia's 159 counties casts no less than two nor more than six primary votes. Hence Echols County, with 300 votes, is one-third as influential as Fulton County (Atlanta), with 30,000. Any three back-country counties can offset the vote of the State's largest city, help give victory to a candidate with a minority popular vote...
Nevertheless. Any loss in purchasing power in drought areas will be more than offset by spending of Bonus money. Economists are beginning to believe that indirect Bonus influences will eventually be greater than the effects of immediate spending. Even if a large proportion of the $1,900,000,000 Bonus bonds are not cashed, their possession will induce freer spending of regular income. Industries which will benefit most are clothing, building, radio, refrigerators, electric appliances, automobiles...
Healthy British humor continued to offset even such grisly prospects. In the Evening Standard inimitable Low cartooned two Britons with back-scratchers in a Turkish bath, one saying to the other: "Gad, sir, Mussolini is right! How can we expect him to behave decently, if we object to his dropping gas bombs...
Another front-page story, jesting at Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia's plans for a New York City municipal power plant, reported that Consolidated Edison was about to turn the tables by founding a "yardstick" city to be "colonized and owned by the company's stockholders, who hope to offset the losses from New York City's competition in the utility field by the saving in taxes resulting from operating their own city...