Word: bille
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...BILL FARLEY...
Last week the President: ¶ Signed the $126 million Airport Aid Bill, a bill raising the interest ceiling from 4.75% to 5.25% on G.I. housing loans, and the corporate-and excise-taxes extension bill (see The Congress). ¶ Marked off a new line of fiscal frugality for his Administration. A balanced budget was something he was earnestly striving for, said Ike, but he pointedly omitted previous hints that this might mean a tax cut. Said he: "We should be starting to pay off our [$284 billion] debt . . . Congress itself expects us to get in the business of paying off some...
Under the clouds last week: ¶ The Congress appropriated $6 billion in three bills-for the Agriculture, Commerce, State and Justice departments-shaving off $162 million from the President's requests. ("They say we are budget busters and big spenders," raged House Speaker Rayburn in a rare public outburst, "and all the time we are cutting down on their bills. I don't understand it.") In the $4.6 billion farm-appropriation bill, both houses voted a ceiling on individual farm subsidies to put a stop to subsidy millionaires, but in the final maneuvering it was raised from...
...want to rest! I want to breathe quietly again! But this line is delivered as though by a tired prostitute, and not by a woman with a sincere desire to escape from her past and begin life anew with the security of marriage. Likewise, the scene with the young bill collector is completely lacking in lyric quality and only the primitive element is played. The way in which Miss Humphrey delivers, "I've got to be good--and keep my hands off children," using her lower register and a drunken slur, is strongly reminiscent of Tallulah Bankhead. There is nothing...
...Quesada won a major victory. The Sen ate restored $48.8 million of the $76 million cut by the House from FAA's $587 million jet-age budget, bringing the total appropriation for operating expenses to within only $6,000,000 of what Quesada asked. Chances for the revised bill's passage : excellent. The restoration gives Quesada virtually all he wanted, means that he will have the money to set up air controls, hire the men to man radar stations...