Into a briefing room at the Pentagon last week filed 75 aircraft men to hear what production cuts they may expect under Harry Truman's pruned military budget (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS). Instead of the $25 billion the Air Force had asked for fiscal 1953, it will now have to make do on $20.7 billion.
The Air Force insisted that this means no change in the overall program to boost the Air Force from 95 to 143 wings. But instead of being completed by 1953, as first planned, the 143 wings will not be finished...
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