Word: budgeting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...House has already cut the Army's $6 billion budget request by $436 million. Last week Navy Secretary James Forrestal appeared before a Senate appropriations subcommittee to battle another...
House slash of $377 million in the Navy budget. His estimate of the damage: 157 ships, 100,000 men, 1,000 aircraft. Said he: "A reduction in naval strength of any such magnitude . . . would surely be interpreted as evidence of our intention to recede from our international obligations and commitments abroad...
...April, most Britons were stunned to learn that their Government's new budget included a 50% increase in the duty...
...labor bills, Congress was feeling relaxed. Perfunctorily, the stamp of approval was put on the final tax bill-by the House, 220 to 99; by the Senate, 48 to 28. The House, correcting a mistake of its Appropriations Committee when it slashed $476 million from the Army's budget, restored $40 million for procurement of new military aircraft...
Rough Road. In the House the Republican economizers had found the going as rough as a plowed field. The Appropriations Committee's stiff 32% cut in the Department of Agriculture's budget had made some rural Republicans jumpy. With the aid of these waverers, the Democrats came close to restoring funds for soil conservation, school lunches, rural electrification...