Word: budgeting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Ordered the State Department to vacate its gingerbread, high-corridored building across the street from the White House to make way for the Budget Bureau, Office of Economic Stabilization and other executive agencies. State will move to the War Department's pre-Pentagon building on Virginia Avenue...
Then came the amendments. Indiana's Homer Capehart wanted the loan reduced to $1.5 billion. California's William F. Knowland tried to bar the loan until U.S. production had reached prewar levels and the budget showed a surplus. Vermont's George Aiken suggested another: wipe out the British Empire preference system...
Jimmy Forrestal, whose 22 years in Wall Street, including three as president of Dillon, Read & Co., had given him the financial know-how for the $30,000 a year job, had been offered it last week. (Onetime U.S. Budget Director Lewis W. Douglas had turned it down.) Although Forrestal was mumchance, one sage Washington dopester said: "It's as sure as anything can be these days that Jimmy will take...
...there was time, but virtually no money. The Navy had asked $400 million for upkeep and improvement of its bases in both the Atlantic and Pacific-most of it to be spent in the Pacific. President Truman, awaiting final disposition of the islands, cut this out of the budget bill. Whatever the Army might ask would be subject to the same policy of wait...
Wanted: Beds. When Washington asked a put-up-or-shut-up question (''What is Alaska doing about it?"), Albrecht had a stopper: none-too-wealthy Alaska had voted $250,000, about one-tenth of its annual budget, for an anti-T.B. campaign; its able Governor, Dr. Ernest Gruening (pronounced greening) had declared a state of emergency. Now would Congress meet the request of the Office of Indian Affairs for $2,775,000 to start building a 200-bed sanatorium...