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...Chicago (TIME, Jan. 17). He startled the cynics still further by giving the income from another million to Stephens College (Columbia, Mo.) for consumer education. Conservatives and radicals began to rub their eyes incredulously when they learned three weeks ago what Harold Sloan had done with the third outlay of good capitalist profits...
...owner of the plant I speak of has fire insurance, tornado insurance, and life insurance on the lives of the principal officials. His largest cash outlay (in a good many plants) is for labor. Is he justified in hiring one of us to make certain that his labor machine doesn't go sour? I'll not pretend to answer. I'm retired and don't give a damn...
Puppet governments are expensive, however, and it is in this respect that Japan's resources will be strained. Her puppet governments can keep their Chinese subjects quiet only by an outlay of money,--for Japanese gendarmes to maintain order, for puppet Chinese armies of soldiers who must be fed in order to keep them from banditry (a form of unemployment relief), and for public industrial works to make the conquered territory return a profit to Japan...
...supreme court. Soon Vanderbilt's were the first Southern classrooms to hear about Evolution and modern geology. Armed with several millions more from the Vanderbilts and the General Education Board, Chancellor Kirkland replenished his faculty, secured in 1919 the General Education Board's then record single outlay ($4,000,000) to build a Medical School...
...terms of pre-War money, were running three times as high as in 1913, twice as high as in the 19205, the report observed: "Whatever may be said for the policy of public works in times of Depression, there can be no question about the undesirability of increased government outlay once the expansion of business is in full swing, for then there is the danger that extra stimulus may produce an unhealthy boom. . . . Considering the phase that has been reached in the business cycle, this increase comes at a wrong time and tends to stimulate wrong trades— namely, those...