Word: slicing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...report. For fiscal 1942, Congress has budgeted approximately $6,581,000,000 for non-defense spending. All but $3,385,000,000 of this has been set aside for commitments which now cannot be voided. To save two billions, said Budget Director Smith, Congress would have to slice...
...chronic heart diseases, mental diseases. But the Selective Service System indicated that there would be treatment for some who will never be physically capable for full military service. What Government agency would give it was not stated. Presumably it would be NYA or CCC or both. Thus a big slice of defense funds would be spent to build up non-combatants as well as fighting...
This week another big slice of the armed forces, 359,000 troops of Lieut. General Hugh Drum's First Army, went into eight-week battle maneuvers in the Carolinas. Canny Hugh Drum had had his test postponed from summer to fall to give more training. From afar he had a chance to scout the Louisiana battle. Now in October the Army's center of self-criticism-General McNair's GHQ staff-settles down in the Carolinas to see what they will...
...State of New Hampshire last week was asked to cut a slice off its own overfat parliamentary rump. New Hampshire's Constitution provides one representative for every town (or city ward) of 600 inhabitants, one more for every 1,200 additional citizens. When the Legislature is in session, say old New Hampshiremen, with tongue in cheek, there is a scarcity of labor in the State...
...with its tremendous slice of armament contracts ($1,200,000,000), was unable to give its guests a firsthand look at all the work it was doing. Its 500-odd defense jobs are parceled out among 60 manufacturing plants in 35 cities. But in a hall at the company proving ground at Milford, G.M.'s visitors saw samples of G.M.'s vast work-in-progress: airplane instruments, Army trucks ranging from earth-borers (for planting land mines) to floodlight units, guns, airplane, automobile and ship engines, propellers. Prime exhibit was an Allison airplane engine. G.M. has contracts...