Word: budgets
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...formation of this National Military Establishment some of the public inter-service bickering which preceded the passage of the act has quieted down, but the fight continues full throttle on the Washington level. Most of the service squabbles have new crystallized around the drawing-up of the defense budget, the question of appropriations rapidly breaking down into the ever-present problem of the specific wartime jobs of the three services. The duplication in equipment and personnel resulting from this unsettled question of military functions has been estimated to have jumped the total proposed defense appropriation...
...glasses into a C82 Flying Boxcar where photographers were waiting to snap his picture. Crawling out of the tailless YB-49 Flying Wing, the President commented crisply: "Think I'll buy it." (Nobody reminded him that the Air Force had canceled orders for more because of presidential budget cuts...
...health service had originally been estimated at ?100 million annually, then revised upwards an additional ?61 million by the time the plan went into effect last July. Now, eight months later, Health Minister Aneurin ("Nye") Bevan announced that the Health Service would need ?58,455,000 more than its budget had planned. Thundered Winston Churchill: "Grossest carelessness . . . wild miscalculations...
...Tories could cite some whopping examples. Bevan's budget had set aside ?2 million for spectacles, but Britons-many of whom previously fitted their own specs at Woolworth's-had run up the cost by a cool ?11 million over that. Bevan had been 550% off in his estimate. About a fifth of Britain's population had sat its turn in the dentists' chairs; the bill was ?12 million (250%) over Bevan's estimate...
...Force watched each flight proudly-both planes had been ordered east to take part in a big, private air show for Congress this week, calculated to soften the hearts of members who are considering the Air Force Budget...