Word: surpluses
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Treasury Department. Secretary Mellon reported a surplus of $309,657,460 for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1923, with a reduction of $613,674,343 in the public debt. This improvement was due in large part to unexpectedly large receipts from income and customs taxes. The Government's revenue was derived from...
...agreements with their creditors and 15% hold their farms only on account of the leniency of their creditors. Low prices for farm products, high prices for labor and manufactured goods, high local taxes are responsible for the situation. The Secretary proposed no general remedy but suggested that selling our surplus grain to some country which could not pay cash but could give obligations to pay later was worth consideration...
...compared with previous years, the Government's estimated surplus shows a steady increase...
...December 14. The setting of the story is an old Connecticut farm where big Dave drudges cheerfully from sun up to sun down to care for his mother, the all but heavenly twins light-hearted, golden-haired Mary and Bob who goes to college and spends the small surplus bank account with contemptuous carelessness. The story is concerned with the necessity of making a bitter decision and a sacrifice...
...prestige. She can put on the field a team composed entirely of letter-men, consisting of Stout and Tillson or Drews, ends; Gates and Howard, tackles; hills and Crago, guards; Caldwell, center; Gibson, Legendre, and Williams in the backfield with Dinsmore, Wingate, or Caulkins at quarterback. Blessed with a surplus of good quarterback material for several years. Coach Roper will have five...