Word: unspent
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Alexander Douglas Hume) directed the exhumation-from New York City's Tombs Prison. He had purloined $386,920 from the New York realty management firm for which he worked, then absconded. He was captured last spring at Victoria, extradited, convicted. At first he would not tell where his unspent loot was cached. But last week, facing a 20-year sentence, fortyish Ralph Wilby talked...
...Truman Committee. Its members had no power to act or order. But, using Congress's old prerogative to look, criticize and recommend, they had focused the strength of public opinion on the men who had the power. They had a fund of only $200,000 (some still unspent) only twelve investigators, 18 clerks and stenographers. But it was an obscure war plant that had never been visited by the committee. Its members had heard hundreds of witnesses, taken 4,000,000 words of testimony. With battle-royal impartiality, they had given thick ears and red faces to Cabinet members...
...authorized $205 billions for war. Of this incomprehensible vastness, about $163 billions have not been spent. At the present spending rate ($4,494,000,000 in July), the fallow $163 billions will take two years to spend. His point: Congress stands to lose control of spending, because the unspent balances amount to blanket appropriations; taking into account taxes, war appropriations and non-defense spending, it is inevitable that the Federal debt will rise from the present $80 billions to more than $200 billions...
...Defense commission between June 6 and July 25 closed $315,288,152 of Army contracts, $1,412,907,677 of Navy contracts (unspent...
...necessity of 1) levying new taxes, or 2) upping the $45,000,000.000 statutory debt limit, were still thrashing around in agonies of indecision. Their eyes lit on the $1,500,000,000 "silver profit"-obtained from seigniorage*-and there they stuck, bedazzled by this vast sum of unspent "money." Unmindful of this, Ranger Townsend was riding high, in his cartridge belt fresh ammunition to blow to kingdom come the silverites' arguments. To protests that ending foreign purchases would bruise U. S.-Mexican relations, Senator Townsend could merely ask "What relations?" and snap one word: "Oil." To reminders that...