Word: budgeting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...long time. Last week the U.S. public learned that the statesman-leader of the Republican Party in domestic affairs is Robert Alphonso Taft. In matters of foreign policy the Republicans take their cues from Senator Arthur Hendrick Vandenberg. But on such household matters as housing, the budget, education, labor, the man is Taft...
...difficult to by-pass. But a favorable turn was forthcoming toward the end of the running fight: the newly-formed department of Social Relations agreed after experiencing pressure from the Council to offer "modified" tutorial instead of a substitute for it, as had originally been planned, and their budget was passed with that provision...
Said to be in an ideal mountain atmosphere, the Observatory, established in 1940, worked during the war on research activity vital to naval radio communications throughout the world, though this work has until now been of a highly confidential character. With an annual budget estimated at $50,000, the station will now "assume a greatly increased role in solar research and other phases of astronomy which can be done best at high altitudes...
...bought the family clothes (including his own neat, dark suit) on a ten payment credit plan. Lately Pedro had turned a few pesos by keeping books for a nearby almacén (store), and this, with the $35 a month earned by elder son Guillermo, brought the Pisani budget into precarious balance. Pedro shuddered to think of what would happen if sickness struck his home...
...hangover cure was not so certain. But most radio executives believed that the industry would be much wiser once it got over its present jitters. They looked for more experimentation in programming, to develop new and cheaper shows within the budget of smaller sponsors. They also expected more network financing of such high art as Toscanini and the NBC Symphony. Whatever developed, U.S. listeners would welcome the change. To many, the only direction left for radio...