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Show RECLAMATION OF THE ARID LANDS 691 Regular Annual Appropriations for Reclamation from the Reclamation Fund and from General Funds" Year Reclamation Fund General Funds 1936 1,338,100 16,000.000 1937 12,344,600 35.200,000 1938 12,322,600 31,070,000 1939 10,940,600 33,495,000 1940 13,875,600 64,790,000 1941 10,000,600 63,953,000 1942 8,111,000 93.365,031 1943 3,603,960 88.239,710 1944 4,442,775 37.167,800 1945 7,649,800 20,224,200 1946 34,933,150 85,520,500 1947 41,284,953 78,346,135 1948 25,676,750 117,508,258 1949 36,952,264 229,852,953 1950 44,757,214 314,159,777 1951 49,453,100 222,225.700 1952 51,422,347 182,522,686 1953 72,945,450 123,502,541 1954 74,884,496 68,185,164 1955 83,553,419 77,886,892 1956 98,139,950 82,014,050 1957 94,050,700 101,425,022 1958 87,051,950 112,795,068 1959 116,296,083 149,518,452 1960 126,105,142 124,263,108 1961 124,729,000 155,549,705 1962 114,037,100 160,121,100 1963 123,629,000 210,056,600 1964. 125,310,000 228,128,200 1965 . 134,242,000 189,004,500 1966.. 143,169,000 181,406,000 1967.. 151,539,000 174,046,000 1968 160,507,000 153,540,000 " This table is adapted from Summary Report of the Commissioner, Bureau of Reclamation, 1967, pp. 27-31. their states were paying through general taxes tor reclamation development which increasingly competed with them.104 As the table shows, appropriations from general 164 Francis D. Culkin, Representative from the Oswego district of New York from 1928 to 1942, made an annual address to the House on the many subsidies, hidden or otherwise, in government policy toward reclamation projects, the competition for New York and other eastern farmers they provided, and urged that the program be put on a sound economic basis. He had some support but neither he nor others who thought as he did were able to do more than to reduce appropriations on occasion. funds have exceeded those from the Reclamation Fund for every year since 1936 save for 1954-56, 1960 and 1968. It also shows how well the Reclamation Fund has come back from the low point of 1943, the result of oil leasing income, a considerable revival of income from land sales, and from the payments on construction costs. Post World War II At the conclusion of the Second World War, when Congress took the brakes off |