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Looking around wildly for some way to save money with a minimum of local political pain, the House Appropriations Committee last week seized on a favorite target: foreign aid. Last week it whacked the European recovery appropriation down $629 million to $4.6 billion, and sliced $150 million out of the $1 billion appropriation for U.S.-occupied areas. Promptly, the alarms sounded...
Last week, the House also: ¶Rejected a bill to increase the pay of everybody in the armed services except recruits, along lines recommended by a civilian commission, after a year's study. Cost: $350 million the first year. Total monthly pay of a major general has risen only 11% ($805 to $895) since 1908 while a private's base pay has been boosted almost 350% (from $18 to $80). But since the new bill favors the brass, a group of ex-G.I.s in the House raised such a fuss that it was sent back to committee...
Handicap number two to the Mastedens was the battered equipment provided them by the Weld Boat Club. It is a testament to Ducey's coaching skill that he managed to meld a first class crew while using a million of decrepit, disregarded versify shells and cars...
...choice was a good one. As a director of the World Bank since 1947, Banker Black has been a strong force behind its conservative lending policies. Almost singlehanded, he put across the sale of $250 million in World Bank bonds at a time when U.S. investors were skeptical of the bank's future. With his help, the bank boosted its net for the first nine months of this fiscal year to $7,383,006 (v. $2,242,597 in the same 1948 period...
Last week, inspecting the result, a San Francisco dowager harrumphed to a clerk: "If I had a million dollars, I'd give it all to restore Gump's as it was." Gump's would have politely turned her down; what it had lost in atmosphere it had gained in sales appeal. By regrouping its Oriental collection in informal rooms with movable display cases, Gump's hoped to sell twice as much...