Word: surpluses
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...written on the expectations and predictions on how the year would end. At the low end of the scale was the point where a deficit of $823,000,000 was expected. At the other end of the scale was the final announcement of General Lord, a $310,000,000 surplus on June 30. While the $310,000,000 surplus of revenues over expenditures (including sinking fund and interest on the public debt) was unexpectedly large, it was no world's record, being almost $200,000,000 smaller than the surplus of the British Government for its fiscal year ending...
...Finance Committee of the French Senate has turned a deficit to a surplus in the 1923 budget. Nevertheless, the Government will spend $443,583,000 more than it receives in the next fiscal year...
...larger contributions from French colonies such as Indo-China and Madagascar, the attachment to the budget of $3,780,000 from the Saar basin coal- mines, and $31,500,000 from French railway companies for the sale of American railway army stock. Accordingly the ordinary budget will show a surplus of $38,241,000, and the French taxpayer receive value for his money...
...expect the Germans to pay any of this sum is will be a deadweight burden. The ordinary budget, however, places the sum of $157,500,000 at the disposal of the Special Budget. Thus, the deficit for reparations after subtracting the advance from the ordinary budget and the surplus on the ordinary budget, will leave the Government faced with a deficit...
...another low record for all time, although after the record output of nearly one trillion paper marks in a single week, this development is not illogical. As bearing upon the general situation, probably the most important happening has been the establishment for the third successive month of an import surplus in our foreign trade of May, amounting to $51,000,000. This indicates that the long expected flood of foreign goods in our markets has begun, and that local manufacturers had best proceed with caution under our higher costs of production. The stock market, as if also motivated...