Word: fats
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...respective services. The major argument centered around strategic bombing--including the employment of the atomic bomb--with the Navy disputing the Air Force's claim to sole jurisdiction. After considerable bargaining, instituted by the late Defense Secretary James Forrestal, the rival services compromised: the Air Force picked up a fat budget, the Navy the 65,000 ton aircraft carrier "United States." This decision, coupled with a pair of high-level directives forbidding public inter-service squabbles on the subject, considerably cut down tension...
...proposed instead that the government "fry out the fat" in its system. He thought the government could reduce $30 billion of its expenditures by some 6% without injuring its services. "Is there not at least this amount of fat and excess in the government as a whole?" he asked. "Can anyone really deny this? What we know as men, we cannot pretend ignorance of as Senators...
Unfortunately, Douglas was asking Congress to do something which historically it had shown it was incapable of doing. While conservatives and liberals alike might be for frying out the other fellow's fat, each & everyone had his own favorite morsels to save: jobs for friends, subsidies for farmers, pensions for veterans, home-town creeks to be dredged, projects deemed essential to constituents' happinessi and essential to a Congressman's future...
...fat, jolly German businessman, who did not seem to notice the other passengers' tension, kept telling endless stories about how he had outwitted the Reds. The scared blonde across the aisle tried to shush him, but he kept rambling on. "Why, you can bribe the Russians with cigarettes and schnapps any time. Why, let me tell you about one Russian officer -" His prattle was cut short by a jerk of the train. After more than an hour, we were moving again...
...time Perón's election and inauguration were over, Don Alberto had become a permanent house guest in the presidential residence. The Perón government threw almost all its shipping contracts to him, lent him money to buy more ships, granted him many another fat favor. It went all-out on a long-ignored demand for indemnity on a Dodero ship that had been sunk by the Nazis in 1940. In addition to the 2,000,000 pesos that Dodero had asked, it gave him 15 million pesos more to cover what he would have made with...