Word: byrds
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...cold as any other forked biped, the Army has taken large thought on the wherewithal he shall be clothed. Among the experts whom Lieut. Colonel Letcher O. Grice of the Quartermaster Corps has consulted on the subject has been Dr. Paul Siple, onetime Boy Scout who thrice accompanied Admiral Byrd to the Antarctic. Some of the experts' views...
Apple-cheeked, apple-growing Senator Harry Flood Byrd of Virginia, whose committee has been mulling over ways & means of cutting down Government expenses, turned in his report to Congress...
...minority member of the committee, Progressive Senator Robert M. La Follette wrote a separate report, sharply attacking Senator Byrd's findings. The cuts proposed, said Bob La Follette, would fall on the neck of "the very lowest income groups among our population," would cripple programs of social reform which are "vital to the successful conduct of total war. . . . No one can disagree with the general objective," added La Follette. "The crux of the matter is . . . 'where is the waste...
...this week the scholarly, economics-wise Brookings Institution brought up its reserves in support of Senator Byrd, recommended even bigger savings ($2,085,000,000) than had Byrd's committee. Brookings' proposed cuts, mostly from the same places Byrd would make them, would take more from agriculture, much more from highways, flood control and public works. The Brookings report said that the Government had not yet really come to grips with the situation, added: "Yet if the will to do so exists, the proposed $2,000,000,000 curtailment can be made without difficulty...
Penguins, flights over the South Pole, Admiral Byrd and other now tedious topics aside, the most recent U.S. Antarctic Expedition was essentially a scientific project designed to turn up a lot of useful scientific facts. Last week, six months back from their last trip, members of the 1939-41 expedition summarized the scientific results of their work at the fall meeting of Philadelphia's venerable, learned American Philosophical Society (one of their sponsors). Highlights of the reports...