Word: budgeting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Dutifully he ticked off the fields where Congress would be required to work. Rarely did he provide the tools. He promised to balance the budget, and hoped, with a smile, "that the Congress will cooperate in this program of economy." He said that the nation's agricultural objective should be "a balanced pattern of peacetime production without either undue sacrifice by farm people or undue expense to the Government." He got some of his loudest applause of the day when he called for the maintenance of adequate defense, reminding Congress that he still wanted merger and universal military training...
Canada looked in the mirror last week and liked the ruddy cheeks it saw. In Ottawa, Finance Minister Douglas Abbott announced that the fiscal year would certainly end (March 31) with the budget in balance. There was a $200,000,000 Government surplus at the end of eight months, instead of the $200,000,000 deficit expected. Better still, there might be cuts in taxes, although they probably would not be large...
...section on "fundamental national policies" includes equitable distribution of land, protection and limitation of private property, government management of public utilities, allocation of a definite percentage of the budget for educational, scientific and cultural purposes, a national social insurance system, protection of women and child labor, and opportunity of employment for all capable of working...
...remain closed "for several years." For Mexico's brand-new Government, that was a real jolt. The half million head of cattle that annually went to U.S. markets had meant prosperity for the northern states; and cattle export duties had made up a big chunk of the federal budget...
...unknown frontier for French critics, and they explored it warily. The 84 uniformly small canvases (by such local big shots as Georgia O'Keeffe, Charles Sheeler and Morris Kantor) had been recently acquired by the State Department. It looked as though the State Department had kept within its budget by accepting second-best samples which might impress Paris by the originality, but not the quality, of U.S. taste...