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Phenomenal Slice. Perhaps more im portant than the cut in expenditures is the budget's reduction in "new obligational authority," i.e., authority to make contracts (45% of the actual spending proposed in the 1955 budget will be from obligational authority granted in earlier years). The President asked for $56.3 billion of such authority, $4.4 billion less than the current year, $23.9 billion less than 1953's total and $35.1 billion below the Korean war peak in fiscal...
OMan is also gentle. He can pick up an egg in strong steel fingers and never crack the shell. He can make a cake and slice and serve it as deftly as any housewife...
...urgency of the campaign, he said, stems from the fact that the present budget is about as low as it can be without "radically changing the character of the institution." The $25,000 slice made in the 1951-52 budged to bring it down to last year's $231,759 figure was made, he said, without drastically cutting the operations of the Museum. "But we couldn't cut anything more without a big change," he added...
When investigations of New York's brisk harness-racing industry developed evidence of payroll extortion and management payoffs to labor bosses and gambling racketeers, Sprague's name often popped up. He had owned a big slice of the Nassau Trotting Association, which operated Roosevelt Raceway. In 1946 he sold the stock for a tidy profit. Later, he bought 4,000 shares of stock (then worth $20 a share) in Westchester County's Yonkers Raceway, paying for them on the installment plan, mostly out of their own dividends...
...carved many ways. His second wife, Cinemactress Joanne Dru, collected $2,650 for overdue support of their three children, claimed that Dick owed her $29,087 more. Internal revenuers were grabbing half of Dick's salary for unpaid income taxes; his agent continued to get the customary 10% slice; his creditors were cut in for their regular 20%. Dick was reported "on the verge of nervous collapse...