Word: branche
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Since January, the executive branch had spent $3.3 billion less than Congress had appropriated. The biggest savings were in outlays for defense and mutual security. The Defense Department alone reduced military spending by $1.4 billion; mutual-aid spending was down $680 million. All told, to offset tax and revenue cuts and still surpass the President's goal, the Administration had to stay $10 billion below the Truman estimates...
...what Smith had expected: Dulles found the Knowland amendment unacceptable. In view of that Smith suggested a delay in the committee vote. California's Knowland, who operates with the finesse of a Patton tank, roared his protest: the Senate is coequal with the executive branch and he was tired of giving in to the State Department...
...computers are expensive, and they require specialized mathematicians to feed their problems to them. To make their talents more easily available, Electronics Associates, Inc. of Long Branch...
...well to follow the foundations' lead. "Just as the foundations must be extremely scrupulous, so also must be the Government in not telling the scholar what to think . . . We must be exceedingly careful not to formulate the doctrine that . . . tax exemption permits either the executive or the legislative branch of the Government to control the thinking of [our] institutions...
...president of General Motors Acceptance Corp., G.M.'s subsidiary for financing wholesale and retail sales ($6.7 billion in 1953). An upstate New Yorker, Stradella graduated from Yale University, studied at Fordham's law school, went to work for G.M.A.C. in 1919, climbed to vice president for overseas branch operations, later transferred to General Motors Overseas Operations Division and became head of the division's New York general staff...