Word: problems
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Committee vote was split 4 to 4 on the issue and the report presented the arguments of both sides: Walter B. Raushenbush '50 for the investigation, Chairman David L. McMurtrie '50 against it. Provost Buck will speak to the Council Monday night about the problem of price increases...
...present problem of unifying the services dates from the National Security Act of 1947 which set them up "... under civilian control ... not for merger, but for integration into an efficient team." The act was a compromise affair, reflecting the Navy's old fear of having the other services gang up against it, and the Air Force's equally strong desire to get out from under Army control. The Army wanted to make sure it would get sufficient direct air support, and the Navy plugged for carrier task-forces as our main striking weapon. After the long fight, the office...
...service bickering which preceded the passage of the act has quieted down, but the fight continues full throttle on the Washington level. Most of the service squabbles have new crystallized around the drawing-up of the defense budget, the question of appropriations rapidly breaking down into the ever-present problem of the specific wartime jobs of the three services. The duplication in equipment and personnel resulting from this unsettled question of military functions has been estimated to have jumped the total proposed defense appropriation of $14,218,000,000 by one-quarter...
...shove. The Hoover Commission, which has been busy digging away at inefficiency in the Government, has just come up with a plan for a thorough shake-up of the whole National Security Organization, the first plan to overhaul completely the 1947 compromise. The Commission jumps on the budget problem as indicating the defects in the present organization. It cites the incredible fact that a $30,000,000,000 defense budget was once being seriously considered for 1950; that this budget included the remodeling of precisely 102 more tanks of a certain type than the Army owned; that an error...
...General Eisenhower can get the services working together without this difficult and time-consuming reconstuction, he will have solved a problem that is funneling the country's resources into a constant and needless waste...