Word: billing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Nonetheless, if in five weeks Senate and House had passed little, they had done enough spadework to insure the passage of at least one item on the President's list (a farm bill, now being rewritten in conference) several weeks earlier than otherwise. Furthermore, two items not on the original program but added later because of Recession were got under...
...Congress on its own initiative, was revising the undistributed profits tax-for which the President said he was ready whenever Congress was. By last week, the House Ways & Means Committee's sub-Committee on Taxation had put in a month's work on a new tax bill drafting of which should be completed soon after Congress reconvenes...
...such interpreters as Jeans, Eddington and Professor Andrade. But he is also somewhat annoyed by the paradoxes and abstractions which result from the fact that atomic behavior cannot be visualized or represented by commonplace physical analogy. In a letter printed by Nature last month he drew up a polite bill of complaint against the physicists. A chief item was that after laymen have learned to regard protons, electrons and other charged particles as nothing but electricity, the physicists adduce the neutron which has no charge and therefore cannot exist-although a stream of neutrons will knock the living daylights...
Legislatively the storm is summed up in two bills now before Congress, one of which (Lee-McCarran Bill) would hand U. S. airlines over to the Interstate Commerce Commission while the other (Bland-Copeland Bill) would segregate over-ocean flying from domestic aviation and put it under the Maritime Commission, as Chairman Joseph Patrick Kennedy suggested in his famed report (TIME, Nov. 22). For Pan American, which escaped the visitation of the Black Committee in the airmail investigation, the ultimate decision is vital. Under the Lee-McCarran Bill, the I.C.C. would give preference in granting certificates for overseas air service...
...other hand, the Bland-Copeland Bill embodies Mr. Kennedy's ideas that transoceanic air lines should supplement the merchant marine. Indeed, he is not adverse to having ship owners go into aviation. His plan is to put overseas aviation on the same footing as shipping-even to the point of providing subsidies to build planes...