Word: bille
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...salute TIME for the fine article on our Governor Bill Quinn. We are very proud of him and happy to have him as our new state's Governor. Who knows, some day he may be the President...
...Democratic Congress considers foreign aid bad politics. The House last month slashed Ike's "rock bottom" $1.6 billion military-aid request to $1.3 billion, sent it to the Senate. Fighting back, Ike last week sent along Draper's strong report, demanded repairs on the "dangerously low" aid bill. Draper, more explicit, called the congressional cuts "a serious security danger for the United States." His committee found that military aid, along with economic aid, is basic to the U.S.'s "entire forward strategy and hope for the future...
Through the House Ways & Means Committee last week rode a bill to save the nation's $41 billion, 41,000-mile highway-building program from skidding to a halt. The committee, which ten times has vowed never to boost the federal gasoline tax, changed its mind; it approved a 1? hike to 4? a gallon, effective for 22 months from Sept. 1 to June 30, 1961. The lopsided vote (16 to 9) marked a partial victory for the Administration; it has championed a fiveyear, 1½? boost, bucked a congressional bond-floating plan that would have added huge interest...
...Washington, including New York, Ohio, Missouri, California. These states pressured Congress to bow to the President's proposed tax boost, in the face of the oil industry that lobbied hard against it. The penny tax will raise about $960 million. After it expires in mid-1961, the compromise bill would earmark $2,445 billion from present taxes on autos and parts to the highway program from fiscal 1962 through...
...BOND-BILL COMPROMISE stands little chance of approval by House as key Democrats oppose bill allowing President to raise 4.25% interest-rate ceiling on long-term bonds and 3.26% rate on savings bonds...