Word: surplus
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Surplus Hydra...
...seems as though, despite the valiant efforts of the H. A. A., the surplus is doomed to continue on its upward path. Thanks to the failure of the steel stands to produce the estimated expense of $170,000., rather miserably letting the association down with a mere bill for $155,000., and to the fact that other items of expenditure have failed to come through as expected, the surplus, a several headed hydra, looms more ominously than ever to puzzle the minds of corporation potentates...
Former dicta have forbidden that this surplus be turned to the completion of the new Athletic Building, whose scrawny frame may be destined to strike terror into the hearts of nearby residents for many months to come. But on the other hand, rumour saith that the immovable hath been moved if only slightly, and that the Corporation may reconsider its previous decisions, and leave the path open to the utilization of the surplus...
...surplus also rises! And with it appears once more the problem, not so perplexing apparently to those would easily and sanely dispose of it, but still of grave import to the body in whose final decision rests its ultimate destiny...
Despite numerous running expenses, despite the expense of such improvements as have been made on Soldiers Field, and despite the outlay of thousands of dollars in the construction of steel stands, the H. A. A. still rests with a surplus...