Word: budgeting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fact was that all talk of budget ceilings and tax cuts had been made unrealistic by the new foreign-policy line. Said New Hampshire's Styles Bridges, chairman of the Senate Appropriations...
Committee: "It knocks budget plans askew." He thought the whole, interrelated problem would have to be tackled anew. Many thoughtful Republicans agreed with him-but not Minnesota's Harold Knutson, chairman of Ways & Means, who was driving his committee with a bull whip...
Cried the decorative Democrat: "The average . . . family has its budget bursting to the seams." The U.S. and the average U.S. family were in the same...
While Republicans in Washington quarreled over "blind" budget cuts, Tom Dewey won approval for a record $671,900,000 in expenditures, highest in the state's history. Recognizing the need for higher salaries for teachers, he adopted a new scale which was the highest in the nation (but still somewhat less than the teachers had asked). He approved a referendum on a veterans' bonus which would cost the state $400 million, plus interest...
...Ides of March were uneasy. In a Britain plagued by blizzards, floods and landslides,* the Army asked the House of Commons for a sizable budget. Heavy snow in Eire curtailed the export of shamrocks for St. Patrick's Day. In Naples, striking bakers raided the University library and burned books. In Moscow, Atomic Scientist Peter Kapitza, variously reported purged or resting, emerged to publish a learned paper entitled: "Theoretical and Empirical Expressions for Heat Transfers in a Turbulent Stream...