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Less than a month ago President Hoover warned Congress, meaning chiefly the Senate, to be economical (TIME. March 10). The Senate was resentful. The House sent the Senate a $48,000,000 deficiency appropriation bill. Last week, when the Senate had passed this bill, the outlay had risen to $171,000,000. But the Senate was not to blame for this apparent extravagance. Practically all increases had been made at the request of President Hoover: an extra $100,000,000 for the Federal Farm Board's wheat market operations, $3,000,000 for Porto Rican hurricane relief...
...recovered cost of its page in the Times ($2,100) something over. Thereupon Mr. Win ordered a page in the Herald Tribune. paid out too, financing the purchase page in the Chicago Tribune. Next the Detroit Free Press, the Boston Herald, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. Thus, initial outlay of $2,100 which he got back, Adman Winters put in motion self-propelling publicity vehicle extremely simple to operate. He thought $5,000,000 worth of publicity would wonders for the Cause. What the effects would be on Prohibition and on Life's circulation (now down...
...submarine is a purely defensive weapon seems to us difficult to reconcile with the offensive use which has been made of it at great distances from its home ports. The contention that it is a less costly weapon which affords a maximum of strategic value for a minimum of outlay must be considered in the light of the knowledge that the submarine is three or four times as costly, ton for ton, as the largest type of surface craft and approximately twice as costly as the largest ships...
...week to the House of Representatives, where all appropriations must originate, President Hoover sent his first Budget, providing for the fiscal year 1931.* Chief figure of the Hoover budget: $3,830,445,231, the Government's estimated expenditure for next year, exclusive of a postal deficit and additional outlay for the Federal Farm Board. Comparatively, this amount is $4,304,000 greater than current actual expenditures. Said President Hoover: "Our finances are in a sound condition." He envisaged surpluses of 225 million this year, 122 million next, reiterated his tax reduction recommendation...
...takes a brief glimpse at the perennial bills which now decorate Harvard desks throughout the college. What with the unfortunate outcome of the Michigan game and the past unpleasantness in Wall Street, the financial atmosphere of Cambridge has become distinctly heavy. A term bill is bad enough, the anticipated outlay for the Yale week-end will be worse, and for those who sport license plates of dashing colors the thought of registration and insurance is the last straw. That such an accumulation of gargantuan expenses should be presented at one fell swoop is inexcusable. Does it mean that Harvard undergraduates...