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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Phenomenal Slice. Perhaps more im portant than the cut in expenditures is the budget's reduction in "new obligational authority," i.e., authority to make contracts (45% of the actual spending proposed in the 1955 budget will be from obligational authority granted in earlier years). The President asked for $56.3 billion of such authority, $4.4 billion less than the current year, $23.9 billion less than 1953's total and $35.1 billion below the Korean war peak in fiscal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE BUDGET: The Test of Necessity | 2/1/1954 | See Source »

...early 305." What to do for a patient whose history shows that there is a danger of coronary attack? "The current accent on the avoidance of overexertion is some what misplaced, and in most cases, except those with severe heart-muscle damage, avoidance of emotional stress is more im portant." Or, as Dr. Cathcart put it for his professional audience: "A useful anticoagulant is peace of mind...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Analysts & Bartenders | 6/29/1953 | See Source »

When informed of the investigation, Councillor Lynch said that he did not "know a damn thing about the group." But he added that he would do everything to prevent the investigation. "The im- portant thing now is to got the reds out of the city, that means even out of the city administration, where I know there are a lot of Communists, and, of course, out of Harvard...

Author: By Philip M. Cronin, | Title: Group To Seek Investigation Of Cambridge City Council | 10/11/1950 | See Source »

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