Word: budgeting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Voted (31 to 0, with six abstentions) a budget for 1949 of $38,692,578, of which the U.S. will pay 39.89%, Britain 11.37%, Russia 6.34%, China and France 6% each...
...them: Wayne Coy, former assistant director of the Bureau of the Budget, now chairman...
...Pardo Palace, outside Madrid, where Madrilenos like to spend sunny Sundays, tough olive trees wilted in the drought. In the palace, walled in and surrounded by army barracks, pudgy Dictator Francisco Franco worked all week on the 16-billion peseta ($1,460,000,000 at the official rate) budget for 1949. About one-third of it would go to the army...
...consumers, most of them were welcome. Food, which had risen so much higher than anything else, was finally dropping enough to be a help to budget-bound housewives; meat, butter, eggs, etc. were all down. Dun & Bradstreet's weekly index of the wholesale food price (per pound) of 31 items slid to $6.33, lowest in 17 months, and 14% below July's alltime high...
Individual draft boards will probably take few college students this year, even if they are not exempted by law, because of the reduced quotas which the Army announced last month. The cut in draft quotas became necessary when the Army's budget was drastically reduced last month...