Word: budgeting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Passage of a defense budget of $10 billion...
...Brought its total appropriations for the second session to $34,990,983,929, thus cutting about $2 billion off the President's budget request...
Almost at once he started to make good on his promises. He raised state aid to education by $47 million (to $239 million, a whopping 40% of the entire budget). He began rebuilding the state's antiquated mental hospitals with an $82 million appropriation, increased their staff doctors by 30%. He is increasing the state's nursery capacity from five to 60 million trees a year, the yearly output of fish hatcheries from 3½ to 10 million fmgerlings...
...like the new Rouxcolor of Paris' Roux brothers (TIME, June 7), seemed far more natural than the more expensive Technicolor. But in other scenes Ansco Color was washed out, and faces were often only pale blobs. Ansco blamed most of the faults on the low ($175,000) producing budget, hopes to do better next time, in an $800,000 United Artists production...
Meanwhile further cuts in the Imperial Household budget seemed likely, and Premier Hitoshi Ashida put the boot to some of Hirohito's old-guard retainers, who still wore striped pants and cutaways, still called the Emperor O-kami (Honorable God). Imperial Grand Steward Yoshitami Matsudaira, a palace henchman for 37 years, resigned and "moved across the moat...