Word: budgets
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...budget, Canada had cut off the 15% wartime excise tax on air and rail tickets (TIME, May 23). In the U.S., a 15% tax was still on. The knowing traveler simply mailed his ticket order to a Canadian office (or went in person if he lived at a border point such as Detroit or Buffalo) and saved himself the amount of the tax. Sample saving on a round trip from Washington to Los Angeles...
...observer at Ohio State told the CRIMSON that Phillips was brought in deliberately to force the administration's hand on the issue of political speakers. He remarked that it was a bad time to try to change University policy because the state legislature is now discussing the O.S.U. budget...
Also an innovation was the splitting of the Council budget, last year $10,000, into its components of charities and plain administrative expenses. The Council supported charities, which include Phillips Brooks House, Council scholarships, Displaced Persons Drive, and a contribution to the Salzburg Seminar, will now appear at the head of a list of "Charities of special interest to students...
Houghteling replied that a percentage cut would reduce objections by students making small contributions, and that it would be easier to be sure of getting the Council budget this...
...services. The major argument centered around strategic bombing--including the employment of the atomic bomb--with the Navy disputing the Air Force's claim to sole jurisdiction. After considerable bargaining, instituted by the late Defense Secretary James Forrestal, the rival services compromised: the Air Force picked up a fat budget, the Navy the 65,000 ton aircraft carrier "United States." This decision, coupled with a pair of high-level directives forbidding public inter-service squabbles on the subject, considerably cut down tension...