Word: congressmen
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...Thought for Congressmen. Does this mean that coal, and many another U.S. product which has no natural export market, is to be shut out of benefits of an expanded foreign trade? Not at all. The trade-not-aid program assumes (correctly) the existence of a wide and intense demand for certain products, e.g.. automobiles and refrigerators, which the U.S. can make at a price attractive in free world markets. If the U.S. lowers its trade barriers, and imports those products which other nations make better and cheaper, then foreign buyers will have enough dollars to satisfy their demand...
WHEN congressional investigators dig into the strategic stockpiling program, they will find plenty of things wrong with the $4 billion defense project. Preliminary checks have turned up inferior materials, loss through mishandling, loose specifications and possible fraud. Part of the blame lies with pork-barreling Congressmen, who insisted on protecting U.S. industries to the detriment of efficient buying abroad. But most of the shortcomings can be laid to bureaucratic bumbling...
...will be no pushover. Among the ten congressional members (total membership: 17) are some of the most powerful anti-free traders in Congress, e.g., Republican Congressmen Dan Reed and Richard Simpson, G.O.P. Senators Bourke Hickenlooper and Eugene Millikin, men who still think the Ruhr is just as far from Chicago as Timbuktu...
...reports of his Select Committee on Foreign Aid. House Speaker Joe Martin, a fellow Bay Stater, set up the committee largely because Herter convinced him that Congress could not trust the Truman Administration's figures on European needs, should get its own statistics. Herter led his 17 Congressmen and a pride of experts off on a two-month trip to Europe. He sternly forbade his crew to bring either wives or tuxedoes, and so strict were his rules against extracurricular nonsense that this sign appeared on the door of the Queen Mary's lecture room...
...fertilizer to Europe. But in setting up the Marshall Plan machinery, the Administration ignored all specific legislation that grew out of the Herter Committee's findings. Even so, the committee reports "rubbed Congress' nose in the realities of postwar Europe," as one of Herter's fellow Congressmen put it. "Without the Herter Committee's groundwork, the program of foreign aid would never have been passed...