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Zverev presented a 614, million-ruble budget, the biggest in Soviet history. Direct defense expenditures proposed this year are down a billion rubles from the announced outlay...
...limit the range of flexibility so that actual supports did not drop much. He once considered the soil bank a Democratic gimcrack, now embraces it as a painless way to cut surpluses. And in the 1958 budget he asked for an unprecedented $4.9 billion for agriculture, the largest farm outlay in U.S. history. Benson's vigorous program to sell off surpluses at home and abroad has worked; the surplus cutback augurs well for future farm stability; farm prices are on the upswing...
...pace of Canada's great industrial expansion quickened. Investors poured $7.5 billion into capital expenditures, notably on oil and gas development, new uranium, copper and nickel mines, and a 20% expansion of the nation's steelmaking capacity. The capital outlay was 15% greater than in 1955 and the annual increase was the sharpest since the all-out years of World...
...predictions pointed to another record-smashing year. After a survey of 340 capital-goods producers and buyers, FORTUNE predicted that capital spending (which includes farm outlay, office building, machinery purchases, etc., in addition to industrial expansion) would hit $50 billion next year. Part of the dollar increase, said FORTUNE, will be the result of price rises, but even so, physical volume will increase greatly next year...
...proposal to begin a nation-wide air raid shelter system is unrealistic, particularly in the present context of inefficiency and apathy. Furthermore, the FCDA plan, envisioning expenditures up to thirty-five billion dollars for shelters alone, is unrealistic from a budgetary standpoint. More important military needs forbid such an outlay for civil defense. Any comprehensive program must divide the cost with local beneficiaries...