Word: extras
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Congress for once had given Harry Truman more money than he had asked. Inside the $15.5 billion defense bill which he signed last week was an extra item of $615 million to be spent in starting to build a 58-group Air Force. On this subject Harry Truman had been sharp and clear: he wanted the Air Force held to 48 groups. So with a brisk bit of juggling, he took what he wanted of the bill and left the rest...
...extra allowance which Congress had voted for the Air Force could wreck the internal balance of the defense family, said the President, and it might wreck the balance he had long sought between military security and the strain on the domestic economy. It wasn't so much the down payment, he went on, it was the upkeep. In succeeding years the extra planes would demand a larger & larger share of the budget as they required personnel, housekeeping and maintenance. "I am, therefore, directing the Secretary of Defense to place [the $615 million] in reserve," the President announced...
This rare use of a selective kind of "vest-pocket veto" was apt to ruffle the feelings of many a Congressman, since the House had voted 305 to 1 for the ten extra air groups. But a majority of the Senate was on the President's side and had only reluctantly agreed to the House increase to speed adjournment...
...first grand European tour since 1935, Satchmo had found solid welcomes and solid houses wherever he landed. In Stockholm, 40,000 fans welcomed him at the airport; thousands waited in line all night to get tickets for his concert. Stockholm's Aftonbladet printed a special eight-page jazz extra complete with highbrow criticism, including one article comparing Armstrong's art with that of Ernest Hemingway...
...slash from Jockey Ted Atkinson's whip, gave everything he had from the break. The strategy was obvious.: stay with Coaltown, and make him give up. Atkinson kept shaking the reins and yelling at his mount. Alongside him, Jockey Steve Brooks did his best to pump a little extra speed from Coaltown. Like a runaway team, the two horses thundered past the grandstand and into the first turn...