Word: budgets
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...balanced budget, debt retirement, lower taxes (in that order); Government stimulation of housing; rent control; prepaid health insurance at the state level; a permanent FEPC; the Taft-Hartley law (except for the anti-Communist and union press provisions); public power development; the U.N.; the Marshall Plan (conditioned on proof of mutual cooperation & self-help); equal attention to the problems of the Orient; Hawaiian statehood; universal military training...
...cost of the added manpower, he estimated, plus the cost of arming them, plus the cost of filling out some big gaps in the U.S. arsenal, would add $3 billion to the nation's 1948-49 defense budget, now set informally at $11 billion...
...ammunition from the Administration itself: last week the Government's surplus surged to $7,163,095,565, and all the 1947 income-tax returns were not yet totaled. When they were, the surplus might be enough to cover both the $4.8 billion tax reduction and the $3 billion budget boost which the armed forces were asking...
...this year's proposed budget of $6,250,000, the U.S. share would be 35%; other members would pay 65%. The U.S., which backed formation of WHO at San Francisco in 1945, has been supporting its interim commission in campaigns against the Egyptian cholera epidemic, malaria in Greece, tuberculosis (vaccinating 15,000,000 Europeans), medical neglect in China and Ethiopia...
...Whipped up a Department of Agriculture appropriation bill of $545 million (v. an Administration budget request of $635 million), thus reached-far ahead of schedule-the halfway point in its budget-trimming program...