Word: palmiest
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...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's palmiest days of buck-passing, no such buck-passing had been seen as came now: steel was short, labor shirked, management mismanaged, Washington had failed to plan well. But the man on the hottest spot was salty, profane Jerry Land. Editors and officials called for his head. The demand for a more effective manager of the shipbuilding program most frequently mentioned Joe Kennedy, onetime head of the Maritime Commission, also a pre-Pearl Harbor isolationist. His name bobbed up again, from a quarter that surprised nobody, when G.O.P. Chairman Joe Martin, called for "some efficient, capable...