Word: budgets
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Budgetary experts are now working on what will certainly be the biggest U.S. budget in peacetime. If present Administration policies are carried out, the U.S. will have to figure roughly on spending some $43.4 billion in the fiscal year which begins next July 1. No final figures have been set, but on the basis of current proposals these items must...
...would need tough and able men high in public confidence. A vengeful victor might have kicked out Jim Forrestal, who had not raised a finger in the campaign. But the man Truman had appointed as the nation's first Defense Secretary was deep in a complex military budget and other defense matters that must soon go to Congress. Last week, Washington heard that Truman had asked Forrestal to stay and would not let him go unless Forrestal insisted...
Schlesinger stressed military aid as absolutely essential to save Europe politically as well as economically. Such aid, he said, must come from the United States, for appropriation of the necessary funds from the ECA budget would weaken the total effectiveness of the program...
...Aviv, Israelis were chuckling at a story about Finance Minister Eliezer Kaplan, who was trying to make the ends of his budget meet. It seems that Premier David Ben-Gurion met an old friend on the street one day and asked what he was doing. "Nothing," answered the friend, "nothing at all." "Why, that's preposterous!" said the Premier. "A man as able as you-to be idle. You should be in the government. Name a job and it's yours." "Well," said the friend, "I could use a cabinet post." "Oh, I'm afraid that would...
...colored aristocracy about an armed rising. But last week, as President Dumarsais Estimé's income-tax law-the first in Haiti's 144-year history-went into effect, Haitians were too absorbed by the things Estimé was doing with his record-breaking $13,000,000 budget to take much notice...