Word: budgeter
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...move to create such a course should be up to Harvard, not Radcliffe with its meagre budget. A course in college teaching, required for the majority of graduate students, would mean a large revision in Graduate School policy. The result, however, would be an extremely valuable precedent in a neglected area of higher education...
These varied enterprises marked the latest Navy moves in its increasingly difficult publicity fight for a "reasonable appropriation." Last year, a highbrass conference in Key West decided that the three armed services would divvy up the defense budget almost equally, but ever since then, naval officers have had an increasing suspicion that their service was being cased out of its hallowed position as the nation's "first line of defense...
...contracts had involved political skulduggery. Worth's letter was picked up by Congressman James Van Vandt, Pennsylvania, a Navy man himself, and aired before an investigating committee this summer. Most of its charges were neatly shot down by the B-36 men. And the Navy found that its operating budget was squeezing things to a point where some of the big Naval Shipyards; essential to the fleet's war mobilization plans, would have to close up shop...
...with the fleet. the white House announcement of atomic explosions in Russia, coupled with persistent rumors of 5000 mile-ranged rockets coming out of the Russian experimental stations on the Baltic, stimulated a drive in Congress for a bigger Air Force. With the present limited defense budget, naval officers fretfully equated this against smaller fleet...
Professor Williams also cites Britain's conflict between improving her balance of payments and running a social walfare state. While he does not complain that British nationalization as such holds back production and productivity, Professor Williams believes both sides of the British socialist budget are to high. "Taxes, always essentially restrictive, have been raised so high as to dry up saving and destroy incentives among workers producers, and investors...