Word: budgets
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...half, one-third, one-fourth fractions of deferred students would be made smaller if the military budget is raised and draft quotas resultingly enlarged. On the other hand, if President Truman succeeds in urging Universal Military Training on Congress, this deferment policy will no longer hold...
...Tower, and is housed in probably the most modern and best designed TV studio in the world. But French TV has been handicapped by one of those illogical conflicts common among the logical French. Manufacturers have refused to go into full-scale production until the government increases its program budget ($11,000 for all of 1948). The government refuses to telecast more programs until more people have sets. Result: fewer than 5,000 sets in all France. Programs include first-run movies, interviews, operas and Parisian nightclub shows (uncensored). Throughout the rest of Western Europe, television is still...
Saved by the Bell. Mrs. Yamashita tried to change the subject. "You," she told the Finance Minister, "have the important supplementary budget to attend to, and should not be acting like this." Retorted Izumiyama: "Who cares about the budget? I love you." Mrs. Yamashita rose from the table, with Izumiyama in pursuit. He cornered her in a corridor, vainly sought to kiss her. Finally he connected, but with a bite to the cheek instead of a kiss. Mrs. Yamashita countered with a right to the Finance Minister's head, then broke away...
...sooner was the session convened than members of the opposition began shouting for the Finance Minister to discuss the budget. The Diet recessed four minutes later, and Izumiyama's frantic colleagues tried to revive him: they drove him home in an open car, then back again; finally they took him to the Diet medical room, where stimulants were injected. But Izumiyama was out cold...
Just Feminine Meanness. The session convened again at 9:56 with an opposition member immediately taking the floor to announce with righteous illogic: "I've just been informed the Finance Minister is drunk in the Diet Building. I demand he be called before this session to explain the budget bill." After seven more minutes of bedlam, the house recessed again, to reopen at 10:23 with embarrassed Premier Shigeru Yoshida himself manfully mounting the rostrum to apologize for Izumiyama's inability to be present...