Word: budgets
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...President is as determined as anyone to keep the budget balanced. Secretary of Commerce Charles Sawyer, dressed in dove's clothing and holding out an olive branch to the National Association of Manufacturers (see BUSINESS), nevertheless hinted that corporation taxes, if not taxes on big personal incomes, would have...
...hardly running at all, the town had been too poor to do much about repairs. Nijverdal could remedy that now. Burgomaster Witschey hoped for renovation of the down-at-heel town hall, too: a couple of months ago, mice nibbled through his desk drawer and ate up his old budget report. Witschey could laugh about it; the 1949 budget is a lot brighter...
...Military salaries take 26% of Chile's budget, but generals and colonels skim the cream. A private's pay is $145 a year. A lieutenant gets $480, and if he wants his commander's permission to marry must prove that his fiancee has her own income...
...insistently trumpeted, "Why doesn't Chicago have something like it?" Claudia deserved some of the credit for the opening-night success (though the house was not sold out) and a subsequent Carmen (which did sell out). Wrote she: "If we are to have opera on a budget, either visiting or in residence, we may as well know immediately what it is like. Salome indicated that it is vivid, effective, sometimes brilliant, and that it has great promise ... It was a welcome assurance that opera without a Maecenas is not necessarily opera without adventure...
Utah Pies. The atmosphere of sweet reasonableness was so pervasive that N.A.M. brought forth none of the resolutions that often raise the hackles of more liberal businessmen. It contented itself with a mild request that the U.S. budget be held to a $37 billion ceiling, and a plea for a "readjusting" of income taxes. It listened politely to the demand, by Chrysler's B. E. Hutchinson, for a return to the gold standard, but gently pigeonholed...