Word: bille
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...committee's bill did not commit Congress to carry out the full four-year, 70-group program. It was simply spending the extra $822 million now to give the Air Force a flying start toward full modernization, to breathe fresh life into the emaciated aircraft industry and keep it healthy in case of need. If the international situation eased, the program could always be cut back. Congress preferred to be on the safe side...
...from the big cities had fought the tax without success. But they got potent allies when oleo manufacturers began making their product from the oils of cottonseed and soybeans-raised in the southern and midwestern states. By the time South Carolina's Congressman L. Mendel Rivers introduced his bill for tax repeal, margarine had become as politically explosive as plutonium...
...face a million embattled housewives at the polls or who wanted their constituents to sell more cottonseed oil were not to be frightened by forensics. The bill passed...
...Washington, the State Department studied legislation to authorize shipment of arms to the 16 Marshall-Plan nations. A House committee finished work on a selective service bill (which encouraged Europe more than the proposed 70-group air force...
Three generations of Canadians were proud of the word "Dominion." In 1926 Prime Minister King accepted it in the Imperial Conference's definition of Canada's nationhood.* Of late there have been rumbles. (A bill to change "Dominion Day" to "Canada Day" passed the House two years ago, died in the Senate.) Last week tall, talkative Bona Arsenault, Liberal from Bonaventure, introduced a bill to strike out "Dominion" from all acts and regulations...