Word: budgeting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...again asked Congress for the Murray "Full Employment" bill-which even New Deal columnists like Ernest Lindley complain is grossly misnamed, because its only concrete provision is to budget the national production, employment and income. Again he asked for a permanent Fair Employment Practices Committee, for supplementing State unemployment compensation by boosting payments to a $25-for-26-weeks maximum. He bluntly called the 40? minimum-wage level "obsolete"-a follow-up on the disclosure by Economic Stabilizer William H. Davis that the Government hopes to raise real wages by 40% to 50% without, by some economic magic, raising prices...
Another task of the new Government: to pay for the frontier fence, which cost 300,000 Swiss francs ($70,000), an eighth of the national budget...
Moving steadily along the way to normal times, he abolished the Office of War Information-with a nod of praise to OWI Boss Elmer Davis-and appointed his great & good friend, Washington Businessman George E. Allen, to find ways of lopping off other bureaus and agencies. From Budget Director Harold Smith he got an estimate that the U.S. would spend about one-third less in the 1946 fiscal year than the $100 billions it spent...
...Spiraling Budget. What Minister Plate had to say was that the Army's insistent demands were driving Paraguay's budget clear out of sight; the Army was spending more annually than it had spent during the Chaco war. Under French-trained President José Félix Estigarribia, the Army had been kept in its place, but since Morinigo had taken office (1940), the colonels had got out of hand. Particularly rambunctious was the Chief of Staff, Colonel Bernardo Aranda, who had shown signs of liking the way the colonels did things down in Argentina. This year...
...short order the Government: abolished compulsory military service, proclaimed the freedom of the press "after the nation settles down," abolished the Munitions Ministry and other wartime departments, revived the Agriculture and Forestry Ministry, abolished wartime labor mobilization, established a board to supervise reconstruction, drafted a new budget emphasizing rehabilitation...