Word: budgets
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...capable professors have consented to serve without pay, and the curriculum ranges from diplomatic history in the twentieth century to American music. Harvard will be represented by professors Benjamin F. Wright and Clyde K. M. Kluckhohn, and Florence Kluckhohn. The administrative stuff is busy now raising the $60,000 budget. A grant of $15,000 from the Rockefeller Foundation helped the drive considerably, but about half of the total is still to be collected...
...Republicans chipped and chiseled away at the whole tripod of U.S. foreign policy-ECA, the North Atlantic pact, the arms program for Western Europe. Their weapon was an amendment drafted by Nebraska's Republican floor leader Kenneth Wherry, which would lop $1.9 billion off ECA's budget and extend it only a year...
With tact, firmness, sympathy and inexhaustible good humor, he had prodded and pushed France's middleway government toward a balanced budget. He was urging more efficient tax collecting, more efficient production techniques. His staff had calculated that a rationalization of methods could increase output by 10% to 15% without longer working hours or new equipment. Impressed, the French government planned to set up a "national center of productivity," to send 1,500 executives, engineers and workers to study methods in the U.S. (the Communists had so far blocked these plans). Ahead lay other plans for reorientation of France...
...opening show ran $5,200 over its budget and was a wretched failure. McCrary knocked over an easel loaded with placards which never did get put back in proper order; gremlins got into the balopticon (magic lantern), and the audio-control system went haywire. A less tenacious man than McCrary might have been crushed by the reviews (Variety: ". . . fantastically bad"; New York Times: ". . . involved hocus-pocus...
Summing up, Doug Abbott reported that the budget was planned to show a surplus of $202 million next year. In an election year like this one, it was also planned to catch plenty of votes...