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...Guns & Pork. The budget-cutters were also beginning to cast a flinty eye at the Pentagon, which was down for the lion's share-a lump sum $41.4 billion of the coming budget. There were doubtless millions to be saved by resisting the Pentagon's request for a blank check, and making the admirals and generals come up with some specific figures...
...usual, the biggest roll of fat was uncomfortably close to Congress' own waistline. The annual pork barrel-a dazzling and expensive array of highways, flood walls, harbor improvements, reclamation projects, new parks and buildings, and other enterprises designed principally to please a Congressman's or 'Senator's home-town constituents-would be the real test of the cooks' intentions...
Scale of Values. In Yonkers, N.Y., the burglar who broke into David Stein's home passed up silverware and jewelry, carried off a loin of pork, 2 Ibs. of chopped beef, a 3-lb. sirloin steak...
...will have to spend normally valuable and productive years learning the grisly profession of war, however, can only hope that the Capitol's occupants will forget party-lines and pork barrels for the time-being. Let the Congressmen instead concentrate on making perfect what for many will be the most important law of a lifetime and a foreshortened lifetime at that...
...spattered supply trains grinding and slithering down to the ships. The supply convoys passed acres of gasoline drums, quarter-mile-long warehouses piled high with C-rations, soap, lard, coffee and fruit juices. G.I. and Korean stevedores ate steadily all day long, casually hacked open 6-lb. tins of pork luncheon meat to make one sandwich, gallon tins of fruit juice for one swallow. Outside one warehouse, a black-bearded U.S. sergeant dug his plastic C-ration spoon into a 10-lb. tin of corned beef with the delicate disdain of an overweight debutante at a smörgasbord...