Word: outlay
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sensationally unbalanced budget-now 45 times the prewar budget, while revenues cover less than one-fifth of the outlay-have been added a strangling blockade and jealous hoarding of those few commodities which do appear. The Government imports more & more paper money to balance the budget and the new money finds less & less...
...Reynolds, ten-year-old posthumous son of the late, mysteriously shot Tobacco Heir Zachary Smith Reynolds (Camels) and Torchsinger Libby Holman Reynolds Holmes (Moanin' Low), cost his mother 42? more a month for "support, education and recreation" this year than he did last. This year's monthly outlay, according to a report filed in Baltimore's Orphans' Court: $6,944.86. The expense money comes from the boy's estate, originally some...
...deep red ink, the U.S. Government wrote finis to another fiscal year. The Treasury Department announced that: 1) $78 billion had been spent, ten times the average annual outlay of the New Deal's palmiest spending days; 2) though revenues were $22 billion, up four times the prewar average, the Federal debt had jumped from $40 billion (1939) to $137 billion. Economists who once cried "Wolf" at $8 billion F.D.R. budgets had no words left now to report their horror at the ever-widening gap ($56 billion in fiscal 1943) between what the U.S. Government took in and what...
WASHINGTON--The war is costing the United States nearly $6,000,000,000 a month and the outlay for the current fiscal year alone will be about 78 billion --22 billion more than President Roosevelt figured on last January--the Bureau of the Budget disclosed tonight in a list of revised estimates...
...outlay does not worry Dr. Fifield at all. He believes that new activities bring new people, and new people bring new money. Besides, he has a genius for attracting donations and legacies. There is a story that at a meeting of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce two members were standing in front of a hotel when they saw a panhandler approaching from one direction, Dr. Fifield from the other. They pointed out Dr. Fifield to the panhandler, saying that the parson had plenty of money. The panhandler closed with the parson. When the panhandler left, Dr. Fifield revealed...