Word: budgets
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...balancing a budget determined by established educational policy is an immense one. Provost Buck has certainly done well to stay ahead of his competitors in the past three years, to keep his books balanced, to make what economies he could within the Faculty; he is correct in raising tuition now if failing to do so would hurt instruction. But he has assumed a very definite responsibility to make good on advising, on expanded scholarships, on reviving tutorial, and on drastically revising such College institutions as have fallen out of date in the last decade. He and the Faculty members involved...
...Harry Truman also asked Congress for a record peacetime budget of $41.9 billion, half of which would...
...Fifth Avenue bank job in midtown Manhattan. To Charley, this always seemed the friendliest time of the day. He noticed how Nancy's hair curled below the edges of her green hat and he realized gratefully that he could talk to her about the children, or the household budget, and not be nervous about her driving...
...conferences, with civilian and military leaders meeting at Key West in March and Newport in December to try and thrash out their differences. These meetings soon degenerated into horse-trading sessions, in which the Joint Chiefs worked out just enough of their problems to enable them to submit a budget to the President. The Navy finally got its long-desired 58,000 ton carrier, more or less as part of a deal in which the Air Force took over all strategic bombing and the Army got the Marine Corps cut down to a fraction of its former size. Procurement...
...shove. The Hoover Commission, which has been busy digging away at inefficiency in the Government, has just come up with a plan for a thorough shake-up of the whole National Security Organization, the first plan to overhaul completely the 1947 compromise. The Commission jumps on the budget problem as indicating the defects in the present organization. It cites the incredible fact that a $30,000,000,000 defense budget was once being seriously considered for 1950; that this budget included the remodeling of precisely 102 more tanks of a certain type than the Army owned; that an error...