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Government Expense Cut 60 Percent Amid Postwar Budget Shifts
The 79th Congress closed its first postwar fiscal year with total appropriations near 24 billion dollars, down about 60 percent from wartime levels. Army and Navy cuts dominated, while many nonwar agencies gained peacetime funding. Senate action finalized a 4.12 billion dollar Naval Department appropriation and debated labor service and unfair practice rider issues.
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79Th Congress
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