ATOM GETS PRIORITY OVER FOOD
Keceived Fridav, 7 p.m. WAFIIIXBTOX, June 21. The ITouse Apfiropriations Comiiiittee made substantial cluiiiges in President Tninian's Biulget proposals almost doubliiig the aiuount requested for the Arniy's atoniic dcveloprnerit, approjiriatiiig 275, 000, 000 dollars instead or 2H0,O(H), Oi )() and reducing the allotmeni for foreign relief from 500, 000, 0(h) dollars to 250,000,000 dollars. The committee explainod that the larger aniouut for atomic developrnent wouid permit vigorous research into tliis lunv lield of power. I11 cutting the foreign relief appropriation for food for the - conquered couritries, the coininittce explained that favouraiile erop conditions abi'oad wouid reduce the need for lafge expenditures 011 food. Army appropriations as approved totalled 7, 001,024, 700 dollars, the largest jieace-time budgot over submitted.
Permanent link to this item
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/CHRONL19460622.2.36
Bibliographic details
Chronicle (Levin), 22 June 1946, Page 5
Word Count
122ATOM GETS PRIORITY OVER FOOD Chronicle (Levin), 22 June 1946, Page 5
Using This Item
NZME is the copyright owner for the Chronicle (Levin). You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of NZME. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in