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...reported that U.S. crime decreased slightly in 1947-the first decrease since before World War II. But the year's total of "serious" crimes was still a whopper: 1,665,110 (including 7,760 murders...
...crust of their profession: men like the Air Forces' Major General Lauris Norstad, the Navy's Admiral Forrest Sherman, the Army's braintruster, 39-year-old Brigadier General George A. Lincoln, head of the Army's strategy and policy team. Their answer is a whopper...
...Real Saving. Meanwhile the House, under tighter and more efficient discipline, passed the season's first appropriation bill, to keep the Treasury and Post Office running another year. It was a whopper-the President had asked $13.3 billion, or more than one-third of the entire budget-and most of it could not be cut (e.g., $5 billion for interest on the national debt was untouchable). The Republicans, bent on economy, could squeeze only $94 million from the operating funds, which would be no more than a dribble in the bucket of $6 billion promised savings. But they left...
...fair amount of wheat on U.S. farms, but the railroads were bringing comparatively little of it to the market. And the Government had been a heavy buyer of what was delivered. Yet the winter wheat promises to be a bumper crop, even bigger than last year's whopper. The U.S. will probably be able to ship as much wheat to Europe as last year and still have a small surplus. Eyeing all this, traders expected wheat to be down to around $2.16 by July and they were buying for future delivery on that basis...
Billions on Parade. The President's budget was based on confidence that this goal could be attained. (All budgets are based on some such assumption; a skeptic last week defined a budget as "Mr. Micawber masquerading as a certified public accountant.") The budget was a whopper for peacetime, calling for the expenditure of $37.5 billion.* But it had one great virtue: clarity. The President had broken the figures down into ten categories, clearly labeled according to where the money goes...