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...Coudert to the Mines
...economizers like Congressman Frederic R. Coudert Jr. get their way, they'll save the American taxpayer $4.7 billion [TIME, April 21] ... just like the fellow living on the edge of a timber plantation who balanced the family budget one hot dry summer by cutting out fire insurance...
...chose the U.S. 19 months ago for my new country, and I'm watching everything very closely. I am a great admirer of nearly everything, and hate to be critical. But, sir, how in heaven's sake can a man like Congressman Coudert be elected? Can't he see it is a lot better and healthier to fight on somebody else's land than here? It probably would help to send him for three months to an East German or Polish - to say nothing of Russian - uranium mine. It would help. EDWARD C. HANZEVACKY Mendota...
...special $4 billion appropriation for 1952, which Congress had half promised the Air Force, and 2) slashing the Defense Department's 1953 budget, cutting the Air Force share from $22 billion to $20.7 billion. Four weeks ago, the House got in its cuts, clamped on the Coudert spending ceiling (TIME, April 21) and left the Air Force some $17.4 billion, and a completion date in the far tomorrow of 1957. Just as serious, the cutbacks and stretch-outs cut down the rate of delivery of new planes in the close future: e.g., the President's cuts will deprive...
Brake on the Pentagon. Coudert's proposition made good political fodder in an election year. But it was recklessly irresponsible. The Coudert amendment had nothing to do with appropriations; it arbitrarily clapped a tight brake on the rate at which the military may dip into its kitty to accept and pay for finished weapons for the U.S. armed forces. Of the $52.5 billion that the Pentagon had planned to spend this year, $14.1 billion is for fixed costs such as troop pay and maintenance; $10.8 billion is for military equipment too close to delivery to be canceled; the balance...