Word: steps
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...advocates of Government economy this was a grim case of one step forward and three steps back. To them it was all the more grim because the three steps back covered more ground than the one step forward. Although the 15%, pay cut saved around $150,000,000 a year, the three steps back will cost an estimated $180,000,000 a year. Reason: In 20 months the army of Federal employes has been enormously increased by the New Deal. ¶ One day last week a distinguished gathering met in the President's office. There was Secretary Morgenthau, Jacob Viner...
...leave a $72,000,000 surplus. But times are far from normal and $1,112,000,000 was spent in four months for ''emergency" purposes. Result was a very real deficit of a cool billion dollars. Preparing the "ordinary" budget of department expenditures was merely the first and routine step. Big job was the selection of extraordinary projects on which the bright young men of the Administration have been quietly working while the political campaign roared outside their office windows. In nearly every case detailed decisions had yet to be made by President Roosevelt, but some things were definitely...
Important, however, as is the step already taken by the University there remains a great deal that might be done along this line. Not only should men engaged in research involving discoveries and inventions affecting public health be restricted from patenting their findings for private gain, except in very special cases, but also all other men engaged in research of all kinds. The laboratories of the University are tax-free and, moreover, are supposed to be used for the investigation of problems affecting public welfare, general scientific knowledge, and enlightenment. They are not provided for men to work out discoveries...
Lately beefy, foppish Premier Göring has had two paramount worries: 1) Is Reichsführer Adolf Hitler going to name him as "Deputy" or Vice-Realmleader (TIME, Sept. 17) to step into Hitler's shoes in case of death? 2) Is Comrade Dimitroff, now safe in U. S. S. R., organizing a plot to assassinate him? Last week smart Dimitroff answered both questions in Moscow in his own inspired way. Said he: "I am not interested in killing Göring because eventually Hitler will...
...weeks of October sales were up 75%. "And remember." said he. "that only the home repair loan section of the Act is effective as yet. When Title II, providing for financing of new homes and apartments, goes into effect in November, the building trades will get another sharp step forward...