Word: billing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...time for the vote neared, Oregon's Wayne Morse, his back severely wrenched in a racing accident, was carried into the Capitol on a stretcher and appeared in the Senate in a wheelchair to cast his vote for the bill. The Administration was rallying every last supporter. In the end, George's proposed $500 million cut was defeated by a comfortable margin...
...Tools. Then, still 18 hours before news of Russia's advance to the atomic bomb, the Senate approved the arms bill, 55 to 24, allocating $1 billion for eight Atlantic pact partners in Europe, $211 million for Greek-Turkish aid, $27 million for Korea, Iran and the Philippines. Also approved: $75 million for aid to China, to be spent at the discretion of the President...
...House-Senate committee quickly approved the Senate's bill, agreeing to restore nearly $500 million sliced from the legislation on its first run in the House. Confronted with a new and persuasive argument, the full House seemed certain to vote the funds necessary to put the Atlantic pact into operation...
With the Senate's passage of the aid bill came word of the President's first choice as director of the arms-for-Europe program: 56-year-old James Bruce, ex-Maryland stock farmer and international banker, who recently resigned as U.S. ambassador to Argentina. If he takes the $16,000-a-year job, Bruce will direct the flow and placement of U.S. weapons in Europe as ECAdministrator Paul G. Hoffman now directs Marshall...
Only in housing were the planners not moving as fast as some people thought they should. The federal housing bill would help, but estimates were that 60,000 Pittsburghers needed low-rent housing. The best Pittsburgh could hope for was adequate housing by 1970. R. K. Mellon, Davy Lawrence and the others maintained that first things came first. Industrial Pittsburgh had to be rescued first; that was the foundation of the whole town's economy...