Word: taber
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After six weeks' study, the House Appropriations Committee, headed by New York's economy-minded John Taber, last week reported out to the House floor an armed forces appropriations bill which would nick $1,337,422,500 off Defense Secretary Wilson's pared-down budget...
Truman budget $40.7 billion Wilson budget 35.7 " Appropriations Committee budget 34.4 The committee's proposed allocation of funds : Army $12.9 billion Navy 9.3 " Air Force 11 " Taber's committee applauded as "sound and reasonable" Wilson's plan to reduce the Air Force buildup goal from 143 to 120 wings. But where Wilson had concentrated primarily on cutting the Air Force, Taber's men divided their attentions among all three services. They proposed to take another $689 million away from the Army, $398 million from the Navy and Marine Corps and $240 million from the Air Force...
Harry Truman's budget called for expenditure of nearly $1.2 billion to operate 20-odd Independent Offices (e.g., the Federal Trade Commission, the President's office) during fiscal 1954. Last week a revised Independent Offices budget was approved by Chairman John Taber's House Appropriations Committee. After Taber and the Administration's own budget men had got through wringing the fat from it, figure was slimmed down to $451 million...
...worth of mortgages held by the Federal National Mortgage Association), the U.S. could better its cash balances by $2.8 billion all told, the committee reported. While some of these "savings" amounted to little more than transferring assets from one pocket to another, they nonetheless were an indicator of John Taber's frame of mind about the major budget requests yet to come...
...York's Daniel Reed and John Taber, Ohio's Thomas A. Jenkins, Massachusetts' Joseph W. Martin, Edith Nourse Rogers and Richard B. Wigglesworth, Kansas' Clifford Hope, New Jersey's Charles A. Wolverton, Michigan's Jesse P. Wolcott...