Word: budgeting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...point out that Letter Carrier Bolen's $3,100 [TIME, Jan. 26] is top grade pay? If Mrs. Bolen has difficulty with the budget, imagine the plight of us World War II veterans who chose the Postal Service for a career, and at the bottom grade pay of $2,100 a year must somehow support our growing and frequently evicted and homeless families. Under present Postal Regulations it will take us ten years to reach the $3,100 level, if we manage to hang...
...then the Republicans quit laughing and grasped a sticky problem of their own-the congressional ceiling on the budget. Early in the week, the House demonstrated the difficulty of cutting budgets in election years. It whooped through two bills increasing veterans' allowances for education and on-the-job training, which added an estimated $500 million to the budget. The G.O.P. majority of both houses then plunked for a cut of $2.5 billion in Harry Truman's $39.7 billion budget...
...Soviet Union's best display of what it calls a "people's democracy" is the annual budget session of the Supreme Soviet. Deputies, elected on a one-party, one-candidate ballot, assemble to rubberstamp a budget. Last week in Moscow, the show was put on again...
Facing Stalin in the long, vaulted, white, brown and yellow Andreevsky Hall, 1,300 deputies sat at school-bench desks. Round-eyed, shaven-pated Russians in business suits sat beside slant-eyed Uzbeks and Tadjiks in embroidered tyubeteiki (skull caps). They were handed the biggest budget in Soviet history: 387.9 billion rubles ($74 billion). The military would get 17%, compared with 18% of a 371 billion ruble budget...
...their gala differences, none of the deputies differed. In due course the budget would be approved unanimously -"kak vsegda" (as always...