Word: byrds
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Into Boston Harbor last week steamed the filthy, seaworn, ketch-rigged little (61-ton) Norwegian tub Busko, first Nazi sea victim of U.S. naval might, trapped off Greenland by a U.S. patrol vessel, escorted into the harbor by the old 703-ton Coast Guard cutter Bear, once a Byrd Antarctic ship. Aboard the Busko were radio equipment, skis, dogsleds, two dogs, a Gestapo agent, 18 Norwegian sailors, a woman and a boy. What was the status of the captives? Were they prisoners of war or (since the U.S. is not in the war) prisoners of defense? Under what law could...
...request, Congress was told last week how to save two billion dollars, but Congress did not like the recipe. Just before Congress passed the mammoth 1941 Revenue Act, adding $3,553,000,000 to the nation's taxes, Virginia's apple-cheeked, apple-growing Senator Harry Flood Byrd tacked on an amendment. The amendment directed Budget Director Harold D. Smith before Oct. 15 to show a joint committee of both houses how the Administration could save (in non-defense expenditures): i) a billion dollars; 2) a billion and a half; 3) two billion dollars...
Before the launchings (and presumably in answer to the production blast of Virginia's Senator Harry Byrd last month) the Navy recapitulated: In the first eight months of 1941, it had laid the keels of 436 craft, launched 249, placed 213 in service after fitting them...
...making allowance for last month's inflated figure, August 1941 production was nearly three times that of August 1940. And, in spite of Senator Harry Byrd and other critics, slightly more than half of August's production consisted of tactical (fighting) planes, less than half of trainers...
Last week Virginia's clearheaded Senator Harry Byrd allowed the SPAB was an improvement on the previous mess. "Yet, after all," said he, "one man, the ablest in America, can do a better job than a seven-man board . . . . Let us have a procurement director . . . with power to act." Thus it remained to be seen whether the new setup could genuinely...