Word: chop
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...challenge. For the past
three years, Virginia's Harry F. Byrd has submitted an annual budget of
his own, prepared by a four-man staff which works on it the year round.
Last week Byrd put his plan for 1952-53 into the Congressional Record.
It would chop the President's budget by $8.6 billion "without impairing
a single essential function." Main suggestions:
...more fall in line, the resolution will be placed before the states for approval as the Twenty-Third Amendment. By halting progressive taxation at twenty-five percent, the Amendment would lop an estimated fifteen billion dollars from federal tax revenues. Its sponsors, of course, hope that the Government will chop its budget by the same amount. But foreign and defense commitments make this impossible. The Government, therefore, will be unable to finance these commitments without walking the tightrope of deficit finance or instituting highly regressive taxation...
Haul Away. Off Newport, R.I., Fishing Captain Lars Fahlen dragged a net across the ocean bottom, suddenly found his 65-ft. boat going full speed astern and had to chop his net cable to save his craft, learned later that he had almost been caught by the U.S. submarine Flying Fish...
...postponed its shooting schedule, sadly announced that it had shipped its 240-lb. singing star Mario Lanza (TIME, Aug. 6) off to the Oregon woods to diet, chop wood for a month,' and slim down to a reasonable...
...comes, will still find the Koreans. Said a U.S. Red Cross man: "I've seen the Korean starve to death. I've seen him freeze to death. I've seen him burned by napalm, mangled by bombs, crippled by bullets. I've seen doctors chop off his leg with only a cigarette to kill the pain, but I haven't heard a word of complaint yet. Accepting misfortunes without complaint or bitterness, he expects others to do the same. It can make him the most cruel creature in the world...