Presuent Roosevelt in his motor car at Albrook Field, Canal Zone, inspecting the principal airport jor the U.S. Army Air Corps stationed in the Zone. Planes attached to the field are seen in the background while troops stand at attention, dispassionately. For many years Municipal Expenditure has exceeded revenue, and in the hope of remedying this state of affairs an Economy Committee was appointed in 1926. This Committee sat for one year. Its recommendations were in many respects impractical and in others led to increased expenditure. A Salaries Commission was set up in 1929, part of whose terms of reference were—
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