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Famed, ruddy-cheeked, Old Polar Hand Bernt Balchen, colonel (ret.), U.S.A.F., who flew rescue missions with the 1925 Amundsen Arctic expedition, piloted Rear Admiral Byrd's plane America across the Atlantic in 1927, in 1929 flew with Byrd on the first aerial crossing of the South Pole, dropped in at Washington's Mayflower Hotel to reminisce with some old friends. Among them: Lieut. General James Doolittle (now a vice president of Shell Oil) and onetime Air Force Chief of Staff Carl ("Tooey") Spaatz, now Civil Air Patrol head and director of four corporations. The two old flyers heard...
Estes Kefauver said that the Senate Antitrust and Monopoly Subcommittee will do so. Senator Harry Byrd's Senate Finance Committee got ready to grill Treasury Secretary Humphrey on the boost this week, may also call steel-industry executives to testify. And incoming Secretary of the Treasury Robert B. Anderson wistfully told Congressmen: "I wish the steel increase had not taken place...
...Russell B. Long, Mississippi's James O. Eastland and John Stennis, Nevada's Alan Bible, New Mexico's Dennis Chavez, Oklahoma's Robert S. Kerr, Oregon's Wayne Morse, South Carolina's Olin D. Johnston and Strom Thurmond, Virginia's Harry Flood Byrd and A. Willis Robertson, and Wyoming's Joseph C. O'Mahoney. Paired against the bill: North Carolina's Sam J. Ervin...
...told a businessmen's cut-that-budget rally in Chicago that he was "fed up with global do-gooders who want to see us spend the hard-earned tax dollars of American citizens in the support of a worldwide welfare state." At his elbow Virginia's Harry Byrd, the Mr. Economy of the U.S. Senate, nodded approvingly...
...write-off was hardly a "political theft" since 913 power projects, including some in Byrd's own state, have received similar tax breaks in the past seven years. Furthermore, while the company will save in taxes in the dam's less profitable early years, its depreciation deductions will later shrink just when its profits rise, and eventually it will pay the tax saving back...