Word: receipts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Several causes for the break are already discernible. The basic cause is that the French have not really balanced their budget and have financed deficit after deficit by issuing more internal government notes and bonds. This load of debt, which it was hoped would soon be lightened by the receipt of German reparations, at length became top heavy. Speculators began to sell francs "short" in anticipation of a decline. The conservative investor, to avoid losses, sent his balances abroad, and a "flight of the franc" ensued...
With these objectives obtained, the Government would be economically ready for immediate defence in case of war. Said Mr. Davis: "The final goal of this planning work-which, of course, can never be reached-would be that, on receipt of a telegram from my office, every manufacturer who is to do war work would get out his production schedules, plans, specifications, contracts, etc., and immediately start work...
...only in France, but in other Continental countries, the relation of most newspapers to their Government, and to the Governments of foreign nations, has been different from anything known in the United States or in England. Sometimes subsidies are given direct. More often journalists have secretly been in receipt of money in return for their supposed influence. The system has been long established and perfectly familiar, but is none the less utterly reprehensible. There is no excuse for it. It brings journalism under suspicion and reproach. It will be a happy day for Continental Europe when it can point...
...tickets with a fair chance of getting them. Preference will be given to the small applications; that is, the one-ticket applicants will get the best seats, the two-ticket ones next, and so forth. Demands mailed after tomorrow night will, however, be filled in the order of receipt...
...Dear Mr. Hearst: I am in receipt of your recent note in which you tell me of the attack made upon you as the inconsistent editor and publisher who argued one policy with reference to taxation, in a personal interview with me, and advocated a very contrary one in his publication. I am glad to say to you that you were not in any way in my mind at the time the remark was made...