Word: budgeting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Anxious Moments. The legislation covered $1,651,000,000 which the Administration had marked down in the 1948-49 budget for aircraft procurement, plus $725 million Harry Truman had added on second thought, plus $822 million Congress thought should be added. The total $3,198,000,000 would be divided up at roughly a 70-30 ratio between Air Force and Navy...
...four days of desperate rewriting, Screen Plays, Inc. shelled $339,000 off the picture's "nut," without sacrificing the essentials of the story. Loew agreed to stay in. In September, So This Is New York finally went into production-and came out $30,000 under the final budget. Even silent Stan Kramer got off a bon mot: "Now we can put our ulcers in escrow...
Along in 1942, several things combined to shift the situation. Not only was the College Faculty overworked, but the Radcliffe budget was beginning to pose a considerable problem; and when the war created space and personnel problems something had to be done. Complete divorce of the two institutions was out of the question: Dean Buck, in a special report to the Faculty in March, 1943, remarked on "the historic fact that Radcliffe has grown up under the shadow of Harvard, and something of a 'scrambled egg' exists. Divorce initiated by Harvard would mean the destruction of Radcliffe as a fist...
That was where matters stood last week. Congress' job was clear, but not simple: to design, on a budget which would not disrupt the peacetime economy, a Military Establishment which would lay the foundation for a strong, permanent defense force, but was capable of meeting an emergency the day after tomorrow. That was the task. Unless Congress did it, the Military Establishment, which should look like St. George ready for the dragon, would look more like Alice's White Knight, hung with carrots, fire tongs, bellows, beehives and mousetraps...
...Hollywood producers, can now predict for nervous movie magnates the final box-office draw within 3%. Last fall a similar setup was organized to measure the pulling power of radio stars (top draw in both by the Gallup yardstick: Bing Crosby). The full Gallup empire takes an annual operating budget of around $750,000 a year, maintains offices in Princeton, Manhattan and Los Angeles, requires a staff of 1,200 part-time interviewers for the Gallup Poll alone...