Word: summing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...question of the constitutionality of the refund clause of the 1936 revenue act, which requires a manufacturer to prove that he passed the burden of the invalidated A.A.A. processing taxes on the consumer before he can obtain a refund, involves the large sum...
Portentous was his budget in 1933 cutting Government expenses by $360,000,000, his budget in 1934 proposing to spend $10,000,000,000 for priming the pump, his budget in 1935 asking a lump sum of $4,000,000,000 for him to spend as he wished on Relief, his budget in 1936 when he proclaimed, "Our policy is succeeding...
...revenue, however, $775,000,000 will be raised by Social Security taxes. Subtracting this sum the Government's net income for the post-Recovery era will be $6,519,000,000 compared to a typical $4,000,000,000 in pre-Depression times. This increase of 62% is not due to customs collections which remain below pre-Depression levels. As Depression brought new functions of government it also brought new taxes. Biggest of them are liquor taxes, $644,000,000; manufacturers' excises $449,000,000; miscellaneous nuisance taxes, $83,000,000. But the biggest increase expected...
Debt. Biggest news in the President's budget was a figure hidden halfway through his message: the sum which he expects the public debt to reach next June at the close of fiscal 1937, the sum at which he hopes it will stay during fiscal 1938, the sum from which he hopes it will decline thereafter, the ultimate pinnacle to which the New Deal plans to carry the U. S. Government. This mystic number...
...births a day (world's highest birth rate, which has increased the population, in spite of the world's highest death rate, 34,000,000 in the last decade), five or six million beggars, 24½ million "entirely superfluous cattle, costing ?132,000,000 annually-a staggering sum ... to pay for their veneration of cows." In spite of such temptations to lay down the white man's law, Yeats-Brown says: "I have no intention of teaching the grandmother of our civilization how to suck the eggs of democracy." Nor does India's caste system stick...