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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Voted Down. Critics of the bill made three significant attempts to cut back appropriations. There was a stab at denying the Pentagon $533 million to buy more C-5A air transports, a plane that so far has proved uneconomical. Questioning the need for 15 attack aircraft carriers, the critics tried to clip $377.1 million appropriated for construction of a second nuclear carrier. Finally, they tried to cut $80 million from funds allocated for construction of an advanced strategic aircraft. All the efforts were voted down...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Defense: Until Next Time | 9/26/1969 | See Source »

...Pentagon critics agreed that their defeat was caused by their own lack of organization and by Defense Secretary Melvin Laird's self-imposed cutback of $4.1 billion. Further, Laird promised more appropriations reductions over the next three years by cutting military personnel from 3.5 to 2.6 million men. Currently the military's payroll is $41 billion annually...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Defense: Until Next Time | 9/26/1969 | See Source »

...bought Brunswick shares from the same broker at the time. They also note that no substantial price fluctuations occurred between the decision and its disclosure, and that the $130,000 involved in the case was hardly significant to Brunswick, which at that time had annual revenues of nearly $400 million...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: A Question of Ethics | 9/26/1969 | See Source »

...projects-which will be Federaly-subsidized-will probably cost about ?8 million, Administration sources said last night. No completion date has yet ?een set, but such construction generally takes around 18 months...

Author: By William R. Galeota, | Title: Harvard Reveals Program Of Housing for Cambridge | 9/25/1969 | See Source »

Opponents of the Harbor site object to the cost to city and state governments. State Senate President Maurice A. Donahue said Monday that the necessary state appropriations (estimated at $175 million) could not be "justified in terms of proper ordering of social priorities...

Author: By Shirley E. Wolman, | Title: Students Plan Expo '76 | 9/24/1969 | See Source »

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