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...endowment can be increased to provide more income, and student income can be increased. The first two have been attempted on almost every level. Such things as museum staff's and departmental budgets have been cut to the marrow, sometimes with unfortunate effects, as in the ease of the slash in tutorial. But the total costs continue to rise--employee wages and faculty salaries have gone up, as have heat, electricity, books, and so on up and down and throughout the list of necessary expenditures...
...likely to earn. British planners know that a day of terrible decision will arrive about April 1. Unless by then ERP is not only assured, but aid's arrival is guaranteed by a definite early date (midsummer or early fall), the British Government will have to slash imports. It can no longer afford to shovel in some $200 million a month of dwindling gold and dollar reserves to fill the trade...
...Slash. This week, Senator Arthur Vandenberg's Foreign Relations Committee sat down to write the bill it will present to the Senate. One thing was sure: ERP would not be administered by the State Department. Confided one Senator: "The people in State have no business competence and a great talent for bitching things...
...settled comfortably in the chair he had been occupying since Dec. 27. He liked his new job all right, but not his paycheck ($10,000 a year). By quitting as radio director of the Washington Post and chief of its radio station WINX, he had taken a "terrific slash" in salary, "more than...
...Chairman Knutson reacted by subjecting his witness to a day-Jong badgering. Other Republicans were quick to realize that John Snyder was broadening a hint already made by the President: the Knutson bill, as it stood, would be vetoed. Good & scared, they began to talk of bringing the tax slash down to around $4 billion. At week's end, tax-wise Muley Doughton conceded that such a modification might well pick up enough Democratic votes to override a veto...