Word: outlay
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Breakfast, for those of the Bellboy population who took it, was a somewhat nightmarish meal yesterday morning, when the total outlay of 650 spoons was found missing from the tables. Some men stirred with knives, ("While there's knife, there's hope," said the Boston Traveler), some stirred with fountain pens, some didn't stir...
...final perfection of synthetic rubber, thoughtful rubbermen admit, will demand a further outlay of at least $30,000,000 for scientific research alone. And because this research would probably make present techniques obsolete, they are-unless Japan's blockade becomes morbidly effective-in no hurry to make a premature, war-inspired effort to capture natural rubber's markets...
...liens yield only 2.3%, half the 1929 rate. Biggest mystery in Wall Street is why investors will grab the bond of a Government-harassed utility paying $30 on a $1,000 investment, but close tight their checkbooks on Chrysler common, which returns $60 a year on exactly the same outlay...
...have been carrying, this week a few more pounds were added, not to make Britain's budget balance (which is impossible) but to forestall threatening inflation. Into the House of Commons strode Chancellor of the Exchequer Sir Kingsley Wood with a new war budget, calling for a record outlay of ?4,207,000,000 ($16,828,000,000) in the next twelve months. The basic income-tax rate was upped from...
...fiscal year) expenditures at $17,485,000,000. This estimate is already out of date. Additional appropriations will raise the total to at least $20,000,000,000. The first aid-to-Britain appropriation was for $7,000,000,000. Therefore the next fiscal year's outlay will be at least $27,000,000,000. The Treasury is now hoping for tax receipts of $9,000,000,000-which would leave a mere $18,000,000,000 to be found somewhere. Treasury Secretary Henry Morgenthau Jr. has announced that he hopes to raise two-thirds of the required money...