Word: outlay
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...stockholders had never received a cent in dividends. Therefore it was news indeed when Mr. Odium and his four directors, with a surplus of $36,000,000 and six months' earnings of $920,000 under their belts, announced Atlas' first common dividend of 30? per share - an outlay of $1,200,000. "Inasmuch as the permanency of the improvement in business is not assured," wrote President Odium, "your Directors cannot state that dividends will be regular, but express the hope that a further distribution will be possible after the end of the current year...
Kicks. Congressional kicks against the Administration's Social Security program were that it was not liberal enough. To Townsend Planners the idea of $30 a month pensions was small change compared to their proposal of $200 a month. Said Senator Borah: "I am not satisfied to make an outlay of nearly $1,000.000,000 for armaments and $15 for old age." Said Senator Nye: "We are led to the mountain top by the generalized prospectus and rudely dropped by the detailed program...
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...Federal Reserve Board a onetime Republican who, eight days before Herbert Hoover left the White House, urged upon a Senate committee a recovery program which today can hardly be distinguished from the New Deal. Recommending big relief grants to the States, a $2,500,000,000 public works outlay, domestic allotment farm relief, high income and inheritance taxes, unification of the banking system and government regulation of the securities business, the witness smiled at the startled Senators and remarked: "I'm a capitalist...
...students are forced to hire costly garages or run the risk of an expensive and annoying appearance in court. The land could be filled in, levelled off with cinders, and turned into a satisfactory parking space at a very nominal cost. A small charge, sufficient to defray the original outlay and to provide for the up-keep might well be charged those who kept their cars there. Near to three of the Houses, there is no doubt that the undergraduates would be glad...