Word: bille
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...support for "certain non-basic" commodities -wool, tung nuts, honey, Irish potatoes and dairy products, including whole milk -were made permanent at levels up to 90%. Furthermore, the Secretary was "authorized" to support any other commodity he wanted. Even perishable fruit & vegetables will get some of his bounty-the bill set aside approximately $100 million a year from custom revenues so that truck farmers could get in on the grab. ^ Farmers had long expressed dissatisfaction with the old parity 1909-14 base period. The bill provided a new parity formula, based on a time of even greater farm prosperity...
...surpluses that would be forced on the Government (now calculated at $2 billion worth by the end of the next fiscal year), the bill provided that any of these foods liable to spoilage could be used in barter deals abroad. Failing that, they could be given to the school lunch program, to charities, or to the Indians. All they had to do was come...
...bill was loudly hailed as a compromise victory for the proponents of flexible supports over those of rigid 90% support. In a way, it was−as long as the supports stayed flexible. If it was any consolation to the consumer, the bill that almost got through was worse...
...that Green and Lewis chip in $2,500,000 a week for the striking steelworkers (Green's A.F.L. was to put up nine-tenths of the money). Last week after he had gotten his answer (a curt no thanks), the mineworkers' president got off another letter to Bill Green...
...idea was so appealing to New Jersey's state legislature that the bill went through unanimously last spring. It required all state officials and employees, schoolteachers and municipal workers to take a special oath of allegiance to the U.S. In addition, the bill provided that any political candidate who refused to take the oath would have "Refused Oath of Allegiance" printed below his name on the ballot...