Word: budgeting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...seized the chance to announce officially that the 1947 fiscal budget will be balanced, and even show a surplus. "That," he said, "was done without any Republican help...
Gone like the rains of yesteryear were the comfortable questions which former annual conferences had discussed: How much should a prince take for personal expenses from his state's treasury? (The Gaekwar of Baroda spent $500,000 last year on English race horses.) How much of the budget should go for education? (The people of big, wealthy Hyderabad are 93.2% illiterate.) The 1947 questions were tougher: What will happen to the princes when their British friends leave India 14 months hence? And (more urgently), how and when should the princely states enter India's Constituent Assembly...
Cash Up. Unprecedented sums of money for research are being readied for cancer investigators. Even the economy-minded U.S. Congress has recognized the need: the House Appropriations Committee, asked by the Budget Bureau to allow some $11,000,000 to the Public Health Service's Cancer Institute, of its own accord upped the allowance by $6,000,000. The House quickly passed and sent to the Senate a $17,828,200 appropriation-more than all previous Government cancer research appropriations combined...
Died. Sir James Edward Hubert Gascoyne-Cecil, 85, fourth Marquess of Salisbury; in London. Son of Queen Victoria's famed Prime Minister, Lord Salisbury, he was twice Lord Privy Seal, was noted for his two clashes with David Lloyd George (he recommended the rejection of his budget in 1909, and in 1922 headed a Conservative movement which overthrew Lloyd George's Government...
...line with this belief, the Department in planning next year's budget on the assumption that it will be able to tutor approximately 300 students out of a total Harvard--Radcliffe concentration of 800. This will be a definite advance over the present total of 208 who are tutored and 496 advised...