Word: trimmers
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Dates: during 1925-1925
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...First, Brigadier General Lord, Director of the Budget, compressor of "appropriations, trimmer of estimates, saver of cents and of centimillions, propounded the now old story of the Federal Budget and the economies which it has wrought. He pointed out that, in 1921 (the last pre-budget year), the U. S. Government spent over $5,000,000,000 and that today it is spending about $3,000,000,000 a year-an annual saving of more than...