Salt Lake Telegram | 1939-05-19 | Page 1 | U. S. Expenses Pass Eight-Billion Mark

U. S. Expenses Pass Eight-Billion Mark a WASHINGTON, Msy It IrrV-Federal IrrV-Federal expenditures for the fiscal year passed M.000.000,000 today, but still were more thsn 31,500,000,000 short of Whst President Roosevelt expected to spend in ths 12 months which will end In six weeks. The treasury reported that in the year which began last July 1 it had spent tg.02S.7tO.44S and had taken In $4,431.tl4. causing a deficit of t3,07,153.528, which k pushed the federal debt to a record high of t40.227,673,lo7.