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Red was the face of Comptroller Joseph D. McGoldrick of big, expensive New York City last fortnight when his boast of a $325,000,000 saving turned out, due to an error in adding, to be $200,000,000 too big (TIME, Jan. 23), Redder still was the face of Governor George D. Aiken of small, thrifty Vermont last week when, after discovery of an error by his finance commission, a surplus of $653,000 for 1941, which he had happily forecast in his budget message, became a deficit of 381,000.
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