Word: itemization
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...these moments came when Vermont's Representative Charles A. Plumley found an item of $7,000,000 to build a stadium at Annapolis. That did not seem to Mr. Plumley to be essential to the war. Ernie King's deputy, Vice Admiral Frederick J. Home (not the least of whose qualifications is his ability to get along with Congress) quickly admitted that the item should not have been put in the bill. "The bureau chiefs are here, and I think you are going to give them a bad quarter of an hour," said wry Admiral Home...
...chiefs,' and then the bureau chief says 'I have to depend on the men under me,' and it goes right down to the fellow who is at the [Naval] Academy and wanted the stadium." Out went the stadium. Declared Jamie Whitten: "It takes a mighty small item to make you suspicious of the big items...
...made in handling such astronomical sums of money. But behind their questioning lay a suspicion, deeply rooted in the civilian U.S., which was emerging slowly but surely as World War II developed. Was the professional military reaching for too much power, grabbing money while the grabbing is good? Item: to some members $500,000,000 more seemed too steep for new shore-based Navy works within the U.S. when everything seemed to be moving overseas...
...layman there was one clear and simple item of news: "Freedom of the Air," a high-sounding phrase that has mixed up a lot of plain citizens in their air-thinking, is now dead. Despite its wide touting by Henry Wallace and other quick thinkers, literal "Freedom of the Air" would only be possible if the whole world were under one government. No nation in its right mind now contemplates allowing other nations to fly through its sovereign skies at will...
Editorial comment was minimum and cautious. Most U.S. editors, mindful of the delicacy of U.S.-Soviet relations, of the gravity of the war, and of the 26-year-old difficulty in getting at the truth in any item dealing with Russia, did not want to stick out their necks...