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...talk about the size of the cut that can be made in the overall figure, before Congress has actually studied the amounts required for specific purposes, is non-sense. It may be that economics are possible, but it will require a lot of looking to find them. 81.2 percent of the President's budget is allocated to national defense, the Marshall plan, veterans' benefits, tax refunds, and interest on the national debt. Cuts here are both politically dangerous and detrimental to the security of the country. Social Security and welfare, highways, mail, radio regulation, atomic energy, flood control, reclamation...
...long ago, on street hoardings and building walls in Vienna, there appeared a slick American poster bearing a message stamped across an Austrian ration card (see cut). The message read: "Sixty percent of your ration is a present from American aid for Austria. The money that you pay for it stays in the country. The Austrian government uses it to help the needy...
Four out of every 11 Freshmen represent Massachusetts, Students from the Empire State of New York make up 18 percent of the Class, which has the third largest freshman enrollment in College history with...
Return to peacetime normalcy was in evidence in that only 10 percent of the first year men are vicunas...
Matched against the Republican proposals, however, Truman's suggestions may be beneficial, admitted Professor of Economics Seymour E. Harris '20. "It achieves its good objectives of not reducing the tax too much," he commented. "It is certainly less inflationary than Kuntson's 20 percent slash...