Word: billing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...crusty old Carl Vinson took the floor. A smart, longtime supporter of a big Navy who had come to a realization of the importance of air power, Carl Vinson was not arguing against the air. He simply wanted more planes for the Navy's air arm. The bill, he said, pointing an accusing finger at Mahon, would put the replacement rate for aircraft so low that the Navy would be down to 4,000 planes within six years. Cried he: "They are stagnating the Navy air arm and letting the naval operating air force die on the vine . . ." Vinson...
Super-Carrier, Too. Vinson was, in fact, firing without bothering to sight in on the target. Actually no service had much to complain about. Under the committee bill there would...
There was even $43 million in the bill for the Navy's controversial 65,000-ton, $189 million supercarrier, from which the Navy hopes to fly atom-carrying bombers in competition with the Army's B-36. And this week the keel was laid without ceremony at Newport News, Va. (One flying admiral put the case for the A-bomb carrier in horsy terms: "You don't ride your racehorse to the Kentucky Derby; you carry...
...habitually brisk fashion, the House extended EGA by a thumping 354 to 48 votes, quickly ironed out its differences with the Senate, and sent to the White House a bill authorizing $5,580,-000,000 - substantially what ECAdministrator Paul Hoffman had asked...
...past 3½ months, the House had passed 364 public and private bills. Besides ECA and the arms budget, it had authorized reciprocal-trade extension, rent-control extension, executive reorganization, oleo tax repeal, and extension of export and allocation controls. It had passed every major appropriation bill for the regular departments-a chore Congress usually delays, then jams through in its harried closing minutes...