Word: billing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Signed the agricultural-appropriation bill, with its $50,000 ceiling on loans to each farmer for each crop; also a $13.5 million bill to finance the White House and several general Government agencies, and 36 other minor bills...
...authorization down to $3.5 billion. The Senate, he told his press conference, was "not taking into account the tremendous responsibilities of the U.S.," and he hinted that he might call a special session if military-aid cuts were not restored. And the Senate's Democratic leadership, including Bill Fulbright, was irritated and glum, because chances were good that when Senate and House conferees met to put together the final foreign aid bill, they would find Dwight Eisenhower's argument pretty hard to resist, would probably have to give him pretty much what he wanted...
...Senate Appropriations Committee reported out the year's whopper: the $39,594,339,000 Defense Department appropriation-$346,139,000 more than the White House had asked, with the Army getting the biggest bonus. Included in the bill were an extra $380 million nuclear carrier for the Navy, $85 million more for the Air Force's Atlas missile, and $309 million for the Army's Nike-Hercules and for Army equipment modernization. The Defense Department was directed to keep the Marine Corps at 200,000 men instead of the budgeted 175,000, keep the National Guard...
Cavalcade was born last spring when KTTV President Richard A. Moore astonished the Western Association of National Advertisers by offering prime time for a 13-week program of commercials -and offered to foot the bill himself. Moore was delighted by the association's flood of entries for the show, became more "convinced than ever that some of the most creative material on television today is contained within the commercials...
...marathon bargaining, President Eisenhower had warned both management and labor not to make an inflationary settlement, i.e., one in which wage increases would be so big that they would force price increases. To prove how serious he felt about the dangers of inflation, Ike last week vetoed a housing bill because he considered it inflationary. His words-and a torrent of warnings from every quarter-had awakened the nation to the perils of new inflation. As it met with labor last week in Manhattan's Roosevelt Hotel, steel management was keenly aware of that peril-and of a second...