Word: goals
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Those were only half the economies. Brooke Claxton whittled 25% from Canada's peacetime force. For the Navy which had recruited 75% of its goal of 10,000 and the Air Force which had signed up 75% of its expected 16,100 recruiting was stopped. The Army, which had recruited about 50% of its expected 25,000, could recruit approximately another 25%. The biggest cuts of all will probably be made in the 33,426 civilian employees...
Billions on Parade. The President's budget was based on confidence that this goal could be attained. (All budgets are based on some such assumption; a skeptic last week defined a budget as "Mr. Micawber masquerading as a certified public accountant.") The budget was a whopper for peacetime, calling for the expenditure of $37.5 billion.* But it had one great virtue: clarity. The President had broken the figures down into ten categories, clearly labeled according to where the money goes...
...city. Some of the money will be spent on the steaming port of Guayaquil (pop. 170,000), which shares most of the water troubles that plague the capital. Guayaquil will get a system of artesian wells to supplement the present source of supply, the stinking, putrid Guayas River. Eventual goal for capital and port: plenty of water to drink, a bath a day for everyone...
...nobody." By last week, having cleaned house on Champa Street, he got set to move the Post from its squat, gaudy old building. The Post bought the Home Public Market and an adjoining five-story office building, ordered 24 new high-speed presses. Hoyt announced his goal: to make the Post "the best newspaper published any place by anybody in the whole world...
...mere idea of such a goal would never have occurred to underpaid Post' men during the rowdy half-century...