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Prime industrial targets : oil stores and refineries, chemical plants, railways and docks, dams and power plants.
Hiring a private plane and an electric organ, Mike crosshatched the state, 'hammering at Elmer. In little towns, he would leave his car overtime by a parking meter, then identify himself and pay the fine ("Always good for a box on Page One," explained Mike). He used the "Brannan...
This year the race had been shifted from the turbulent Hudson to the placid Ohio, where it was hoped that the dams at Marietta would still the current and the complaints of coaches that Poughkeepsie's course was unfair to crews. But the change did not seem to affect...
And what he intended was a glowing vision of "prosperity, cooperation, expansion." Harry Truman wanted the best for everybody-workers, businessmen and farmers. Keeping them all prosperous meant more Government services, more welfare programs, more dams, more irrigation canals, an expanding economy.
First the House fastened its teeth to the $29 billion omnibus appropriation bill. The more the House looked at the thing, the bigger the bill had grown-an additional $385 million for national defense, millions for creeks, dams and other sordid items of pork-barrel politics. It had become just...