Word: budgeting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...elephant. As the House Military Affairs Committee reported the bill out last week, it was a foregone conclusion that it would not pass in its present form. At the same time the Congress-which had been squinting at atomic power almost as confidently as at those Lilliputian mavericks, the budget and the tariff-suddenly admitted to itself that it did not know what to try next. The monster seemed to be getting bigger, more red-eyed and more terrifying with every passing...
What had aroused them was the 300% increase in Canada's tariff on seamless steel boiler tubing, which had been belatedly discovered (TIME, Nov. 5) in Canada's new budget. They reminded the Cabinet that those increases, perhaps petty in themselves, were indefensible in view of the Liberal Government's repeated declarations favoring free trade...
...tubing tariff had been increased: the Government was seeking merely to protect an industry which had grown up during the war. When they had heard the Cabinet's explanation, the delegation warned the Government that unless the new tariff increases were promptly rescinded, they would vote against the budget...
...tariff was slipped unobtrusively into the budget at the last minute, during the absence in England of Canada's most articulate champion of free trade: Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King-and wholly without his knowledge...
...heroine, Penny Parker (Susanna Foster) frequently climbs out of herself in double-exposure to step into her dream life (a series of low-budget production numbers in a light operatic vein). Her waking existence involves a rich theatrical playboy (Franchot Tone), the youthful owner (David Bruce) of an all-night diner and six ill-clad orphans who play it for pathos. Susanna Foster wades into her role with breathless enthusiasm, bubbling and flaring as the script demands. Her ardor is not shared by Franchot Tone, who goes about his post-adolescent lovemaking with one eye on the lady...