Word: outgoing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...balance of trade shows more exports than imports, we have been accustomed in years past to call it a "favorable" balance. It is obviously an imbecility to attach the word "favorable" to a situation in which the outgo exceeds the income. No man would call that situation favorable in his private business or his personal accounts. It is unfavorable...
...nation got a sharp warning. A joint congressional committee of tax experts estimated last week that at the present rate of income and outgo, the U.S. would be in the red another $3 billion by next year. Such big round numbers had lost their ability to shock, the government was already $252 billion in debt. But one fact could be understood. If even in prosperous peacetime a government did not keep out of the red, then it was playing with economic dynamite...
...Outgo exactly equal to income...
...Intake & Outgo. The Russians lost for basic economic and ideological reasons. For over a year the wealth of the West has poured into western Germany. Around $200 million worth of food was shipped in to feed the Germans cut off from normal food supplies by the Russian boundary. Nearly a million well-paid, well-fed British and U.S. troops aroused the envy (if sometimes the dislike) of the Germans...
With its demobilization outgo increasing daily, its induction income 75,000 men behind schedule, and all Selective Service receipts due to stop in May unless the draft law is extended by Congress, the Army decided last week that it could no longer afford to be choosy about its manpower revenue...