Word: congressmen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...House refused (207 to 161) to allow sailors to eat oleo with their meals as soldiers and airmen already do, except in some overseas areas or when butter surpluses are depleted. Dairy-bloc Congressmen lead a successful fight to keep intact a Navy Ration Act put through by Theodore Roosevelt to provide bluejackets with 1 6/10 ounces of "butter" a day, to prevent scurvy and beriberi...
...there any way to make your article required reading for subsidy-happy Congressmen...
...from home. This week many a member of Congress headed back to the capital from the midsession recess, surprised at how far Congress had got from home in the furious battle for prestige in dealing with the recession. Around the U.S., TIME-LIFE correspondents caught up with Senators and Congressmen on homecoming rounds, reported these net findings...
...MUST POSTPONE OUR COMING TESTS, proclaimed the ad's sponsor, an organization called the National Committee for a Sane Nuclear Policy-ACT NOW FOR MAN'S SAKE. The way to do that, said the committee, was to 1) write President Eisenhower and Vice President Nixon; 2) write Congressmen, editors and commentators; 3) "organize a group" or work with existing groups "in your community." The point to make: the U.S.'s summer series of nuclear weapons tests at Eniwetok Atoll in the Pacific ought to be suspended right now. "Scientists warn," the committee warned, "that thousands of babies...
Western miners and Congressmen who had complained bitterly about the freeze (TIME, March 10) were not entirely satisfied that the AEC has thawed enough. Milling capacity will be boosted only in areas where ore bodies were developed before last Nov. 1, thus giving no encouragement to the development of new finds or combatting the sharp decline in U.S. prospecting in the last six months. But Western miners hope that more thawing weather...