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...other engineering projects dear to the hearts of Congressmen. With wondrous forbearance, the Representatives resisted the pressures and blandishments of lobbyists and constituents, bravely cut $86,250,000 from the already trimmed-down Eisenhower budget. It was $171,675,000 less than last year's pork appropriation. Congressional thrift touched off speculation about the pending foreign aid bill. If Congress is niggardly with funds for the Missouri River, Capitol observers asked, what will happen to appropriations for the Rhone...
...topsy-turvy world, the accepted standards of business thrift and prudence go out the window. Companies in the EPT bracket have no hesitation spending money on extravagant projects. Example: Reynolds Metals Co., wanting to show off its new Jamaica bauxite mines, chartered an ocean liner and gave 130 bigwig guests an eight-day cruise to Jamaica and back. Of the total cost, the company really picked up only 18% of the check. The remaining 82% was EPT money which, if not spent, would have gone to the U.S. Treasury...
...Later, as a solicitor's clerk, he blithely adds his name to an invitation list to the fanciest ball of the year, where he boldly dances with the hostess, the Countess of Chell (Valerie Hobson). In time, he inveigles the countess into becoming patroness of a highly profitable thrift club he has set up. Through such bamboozling, Denry becomes wealthy, marries a beautiful young girl (Petula Clark) and gets to be the youngest mayor in Bursley's history. All in all, the yarn is a neat switch on the adage that worldly success is based on hard work...
...delegates got a little opening talk from Ike. His words to the Jersey delegates were typical: "I have no panaceas. Certainly I'm no miracle man. I'll make no promises over and above those I think can be accepted by a wise administration in frugality and thrift ... I doubt if there are any among you so innocent of politics as I. All I can do is put before you what I believe. All I can offer is honesty...
...Eisenhower, Mrs. Hiram Houghton of Red Oak, Iowa, retiring president of the 10.7 million-member General Federation of Women's Clubs, "because he stands for thrift, sagacity, individual enterprise and those things that we believe in most dearly as true Americans...