Word: budgeteers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...your report on defense in the Nov. 9 issue, reference was made to "the phasing out of the F-105." To the best of my knowledge, this information was not exact. The 1960 fiscal budget does call for a reduction of the monthly rate, but the overall number of aircraft to be produced in present U.S.A.F. programing is, we have been told, substantially unchanged. Further, no money has been appropriated beyond fiscal 1960 for any military products. We are of the firm opinion, based on the best knowledge available, that the Air Force is programing the F-105 through fiscal...
...PRESIDENCY Week of Reckoning Briefcase-carrying relays of U.S. civilian and military leaders jogged into Augusta's National Golf Club last week to assist vacationing Dwight Eisenhower in nailing down the framework of a balanced budget for fiscal 1961 (beginning next July 1). The week's first wave from Washington, a Pentagon platoon led by Defense Secretary Neil McElroy, met with Ike for four hours in the National's trophy room, was firmly reminded that the armed forces must accommodate themselves to a fairly level rate of spending. Emerging from the key session: a decision to keep...
...possible over a period of time that other NATO countries will increase their contributions of strength, and that they may come to the conclusion that it might be to their own advantage that we deploy forces elsewhere." But such a decision, McElroy indicated happily, would fall in some future budget maker's lap. On his return to Washington, he announced another economy: the second nuclear carrier (forced on the Navy by Congress) would be conventionally powered at a saving of $100 million...
...Radcliffe Student Government Association has voted to approve a plan to convert the Field House into a student coffee house, if the budget submitted by the group who will run the coffee house is satisfactory...
...being fought hard and successfully. During World War II, the U.S. launched a Special Public Health Service (SESP) to protect vital rubber workers from the Amazon's scourges. Now only eight of SESP' 3,153-man staff are U.S. citizens, and 97% of its annual $10 million budget comes from Brazil. The outfit runs 249 rural clinics, 22 hospitals, 109 city water systems, 97 sewage-disposal systems. It has broadened life expectancy from 30 to 41 years, reduced infant mortality in some areas as much as 50%, confidently plans to eliminate filariasis in two years and malaria...