Word: budgeteers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...only real argument over the record-breaking, $15.9 billion defense budget (see above) was how the money should be divided up among the services. The House bill gave Army, Navy & Air Force just about what the President had asked for-with one significant difference...
...that the Navy would be down to 4,000 planes within six years. Cried he: "They are stagnating the Navy air arm and letting the naval operating air force die on the vine . . ." Vinson's quarrel was not with Mahon but with President Truman and the Budget Bureau, for it was they who had trimmed down the Navy's requests...
...Army of 677,000 men with twelve divisions and a budget of $4.5 billion ¶ An Air Force of 440,000 men with 9,875 aircraft in 58 groups (instead of the 48 the President had recommended) and a budget of $6.2 billion-up about $800 million from the President's budget. ¶ A Navy and Marine Corps of 527,000 men with 731 ships (including eight heavy carriers), 7,783 planes and a budget of $5 billion...
...past 3½ months, the House had passed 364 public and private bills. Besides ECA and the arms budget, it had authorized reciprocal-trade extension, rent-control extension, executive reorganization, oleo tax repeal, and extension of export and allocation controls. It had passed every major appropriation bill for the regular departments-a chore Congress usually delays, then jams through in its harried closing minutes...
...least inclined to go at each other's throats: the president of a small Negro college and the white editor of a small liberal newspaper. Each thinks he is working for equality, but Editor Cal Thornton is on the board that approves President Ezekiel Rogers' annual budget. To the shame of both of them, the time comes when Editor Thornton makes clear that he and he alone is boss...