Word: budgeted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...This budget does not decrease the personnel of the Navy 'below its present status [79,700 men] by a single man. It does not decommission any fighting ships although the rotation plan will be continued. It does not propose to abandon any of the Navy Yards. . . . The budget provides for ... the frigate Constitution and . . . the Navy bands...
Prime item of interest in the Hoover budget was new construction. This was fixed by the President at $57,000,000, as compared with $53,000,000 this year, $38,000,000 the year before. Declared President Hoover: "The budget provides for the continued construction of every one of the treaty ships authorized by Congress, except six destroyers. . . . The tonnage of combatant ships actually in construction by the United States today is nearly double that of Great Britain...
...Studied preliminary budget plans laid before the Chamber by peppery Budget Minister Francois Pietri who thinks he can balance expenditures and receipts from April 1 until Dec. 31, 1932 at 41 billion francs...
...thus closing his budget year at the end of the calendar year, M. Pietri would scrap the present French fiscal year closing April...
Throughout France all local budgets close at the end of the calendar year n'est pas, Messieurs?" persuasively inquired M. Pietri last week. "I propose to put the national budget on the same logical footing!" Last year's French budget closed last April 1 with a deficit...