Word: bill
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...flood control bill reported to the House last fortnight called for estimated expenditures of $473,000,000 with no money levied from the States benefited. President Coolidge, whose recommendation had been for a $296,400,000 program with 20% borne by the States, began the week by calculating out loud that the Committee's bill, of which the provisions were so sweeping that they might apply to every stream between the Appalachians and the Rockies, would triple itself before the work was finished, costing the U. S. more than anything it ever undertook except the last War. After this...
...Commander R. C. Grady, head of the Naval Science Department and an active member of the United States Navy, who led a fleet of submarines in the World War. He spoke on "Increased Naval Expenditures," bringing out first the point of national policy. People look with apprehension at the bill now before Congress for an enormous naval appropriation. It is true that both up-keep and original cost would involve a total of nearly a billion dollars. But such an expenditure would be not only desirable but indispensable. The United States has at present only ten cruisers afloat, and would...
...Before the Chamber of Deputies, last week, was a bill based on the assumption that when certain French oil properties in Mosul are developed the Republic will be able to exist on its own oil. The new bill proposes to assign a "quota" to firms importing foreign oil, restricting them hereafter to a turnover not larger than their average annual import business during the three years prior...
...Passed in preliminary form by the Senate, last week, was a bill providing that in time of war the Senators and Deputies "shall remain at their parliamentary duties" and not enlist...
...Tony took her away. He obtained money from Berkenmeer boosters, hostile to Gortion, to form an aviation company. Natalie and he went barnstorming at county fairs, grabbing quick lunches, flying recklessly, with contempt for gaping yokels. Later, Sayles joined them, added wing-walking and parachute-jumping to their bill of feats. Sayles, lonely, asked an institutional woman named Adrienne to join the troupe as his wife; she told him that he was too insane to marry anyone. He brooded; committed suicide by the simple process of jumping from Tony's airplane without a parachute...