Word: budgeting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...floor last week, Democrats took a new line. Said elder tax statesman Walter George: all he wanted was to wait until June 10. Then the appropriations bills would be through and Congress would have a better idea of what expenses would be. He did not see how the 1948 budget could be cut more than $2,786,000,000. But if the G.O.P, could save $3 billion, he would support the tax cut himself...
Representative Jennings and others who echoed him could have saved their breath. Whatever the merits of OIC or its Voice of America broadcasts to Europe, the point of order was unarguable-OIC had not been authorized by Congress. The State Department budget was approved without one penny...
...House Appropriations Committee sliced $377.5 million off the Navy's $3.84 billion request. Total budget cuts now added up to $1.65 billion. This was a long way from the $6 billion cut which House leaders had predicted and, as Majority Leader Halleck suggested, the Senate would undoubtedly try to put some of the cuts back. But Republicans were at least trying to make good on their promises of economy...
...most sympathetic people on the fact of the earth, no amount of silly broadcasting will enable them to realize these facts." Thus, in the House last week, cried rang-nosed Representative John Jennings, up from the hills of eastern Tennessee. The debate was over the State Department's budget, from which an appropriations subcommittee had shorn $31 million requested for the Office of International Information and Cultural Affairs...
...been able to cut its overhead accordingly, could not survive without larger orders. Commercial orders have passed their peak and by next year the airlines may have just about all the planes they will need for a long time. The Army & Navy had little to offer but sympathy. Present budget schedules, which will probably be cut, will allow them to order only 1,500 planes next year, half as many as their own Air Coordinating Committee had recommended...