Word: bille
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...message to Congress demanding "urgent consideration and action" on three items that he had requested last January: an increase of 1? a gallon in the federal gasoline tax to keep the pay-as-you-go highway program going, increased mortgage-insurance money for the Federal Housing Administration, a new bill to correct the dramatic failure of the support and control program for wheat...
...story. It seems there was a man who needed a hearing aid, found that they cost between $200 and $800, "decided to make one himself, which he did. And he worked it with pretty good effect. So finally a man said to him, 'Now tell me, Bill, does this thing really work?' He says: 'Of course not, but it makes everybody talk louder...
...labor-union curbs being considered by the House Education and Labor Committee, thundered Lewis, are nothing more than a plot to oppress the poor laboring man: North Carolina Representative Graham Barden's reform bill is "88 pages of misery," and the mild Kennedy reform bill (TIME, May 4) is "66 pages of misery that is not quite so strong." As for Senator John McClellan's investigation of labor-management racketeering, it marked "a re-establishment of the principle of the Star Chamber of the Tudor and Stuart kings, with a slight touch of the Spanish Inquisition...
Douglas answered his own question by suggesting the use of a nonslip floor polish. With that, Wisconsin's Bill Proxmire (who hails from the state where Johnson's Wax makes its home) offered to let Douglas use his office for a waxing bee. Few days later, Washington newsmen and TV crews crammed into Proxmire's office to watch a high-speed floor-waxing machine tow the two Senators around the room like water skiers. It all proved, claimed Proxmire breathlessly, that the floors were really nonslip (although his receptionist takes no chances, keeps a pair of sneakers...
...points out, Communist membership has gone down in the last few years, and, of those alleged subversives subpoenaed by the Commission, many have refused to appear and were not punished. In short, the Commission's excuse for existence seems to have disappeared. House Bill 2757, to revive and continue the Commission, appeared on the calendar yesterday for a second reading. Hopefully, it will be voted down in the near future...