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...trunk -funds for ECA. Most Senators agreed with ECAdministrator Paul Hoffman that the foreign aid was not charity but self-protection; the difficulty was that Europe, being in no one's constituency, had to be debated on its own merits alone. Missouri's James Kem wanted to slash off $1 billion. Ohio's Taft offered an amendment to knock off $500 million, about 16½% of the total. He would favor cutting "every reducible appropriation," foreign & domestic, Taft declared, by just about that percent.*"If we hope to save $3 billion this year towards balancing the budget...
Fading Possibility. So it went. The possibility of holding down next year's estimated $7 billion deficit to even that whopping figure faded further when the House Ways & Means Committee continued to slash excise taxes. Newest items marked for tax relief were telephone bills, Pullman-berth tickets and cabaret chits. Added to cuts made the week before, the new slashes would reduce the Treasury's intake by about $1 billion...
...business staff will bid for cheaper printing rates. Measures which the staff is considering to slash costs, Miss O'Brien said, include photolithographing the last issue and cutting down on engraving...
...fighting strength when it was needed. For all these, the big carrier is still the Navy's most powerful basic weapon; it can roam anywhere, strike far and with surprise. The J.C.S. was willing to listen. In the new budget the Navy had taken the heaviest slash. After the public quarreling over the 6-36, the Chiefs were anxious to prove that the services could get along; Omar Bradley in particular profoundly regretted his "fancy Dans" gibe at the Navy's admirals...
...same 1949 period. And there seemed to be few signs of a seasonal drop in auto demand. Nevertheless, some automakers thought they saw stiff competition ahead, and got ready for it. Hudson Motor Car Co. cut prices on some of its higher-priced models, and Studebaker made a slash of from $82 to $135 on its 1950s...