Word: congressmen
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Slumping Production. In the Capitol corridors, lobbyists for the watchmakers also pressured Congressmen to urge the President to uphold the Tariff Commission. Two years ago, the Tariff Commission had recommended a similar increase, but President Truman turned it down on the ground that the U.S. watch industry was in no real danger from Swiss competition. But now domestic jewel-watch production is off (an estimated 1,600,000 units this year, or half 1951 production), and employment has slumped from 12,000 in 1945 to some 8,000. Says Hamilton's President Arthur Sinkler: "The decline in domestic watch...
...social-security expansion bill if the Administration would not press for its trade and tariff program, except for a simple one-year extension of Reciprocal Trade Agreements authority. What the Administration got Reed probably could not have bottled up anyway; social security has the fond approval of most Congressmen, and a majority of Reed's committee already wanted the one-year trade-agreement extension. With the contented smile of a cat after swallowing the canary, Dan Reed proclaimed: "I'm part of the Administration." Maple & Vine. Democrats saw a way to make political hay of the President...
Once a front-running state, Kentucky fell behind the rest of the country. In 1840 it ranked sixth in population, with 13 Representatives in Congress. By this year it had declined to 21st in population, eight Congressmen. Illiteracy is high: one out of every six adult Kentuckians has less than five grades of education. The state ranks 46th in teachers' salaries (with a minimum of $900 a year). As recently as World War II, 14% of Old Kentucky's rural homes had no toilet facilities whatever, 83% had only outdoor privies. Per-capita income is the seventh lowest...
...week was fighting for the votes of Northern, big-city Democrats, who will hold the balance of power when the roll calls come. Vice President Nixon, Secretary Benson and his Under Secretary, True D. Morse, were ready with speeches that emphasized a point of particular interest to big-city Congressmen: high, rigid price supports mean high, rigid food costs...
...Force, which absorbs 1,200 new regular officers yearly, expects eventually to get half from the academy's planned enrollment of 2,600. As at the older academies, cadets will be nominated mainly by Congressmen. The Air Force has already planned a sinewy four-year curriculum (1,548 hours of humanities, 1,629 of science, 2,176 of airmanship, including drill as well as flight), and intends to build, besides school buildings and barracks, an air field and a stadium for the football team...