Word: demands
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...When it came to pork, many a budget-cutter squealed in anguish. A delegation of Georgia businessmen arrived in Washington to demand that their Congressmen vote wholesale economies, only to be asked if they thought appropriations for Georgia projects should be knocked out. "Oh no," cried one. "We want you to cut the hell out of everybody but us." In San Francisco the Chamber of Commerce issued a resounding call for budget slashes. What about the proposed $45 million federal courthouse in San Francisco? Snapped a Chamber of Commerce official: "We don't consider this pork-barreling...
...Eisenhower ire: the budget furor. "It is an easy thing to make speeches about," he said, "but it is a very hard thing to do much about ... If we are going to wage peace abroad and try to provide the leadership and the services at home that our people demand, then we have got to pay for it." He had ordered federal agencies to study economy suggestions rolling out of Congress, to carry out "a tightening up exercise all the way through." Nevertheless, he was frank about the expected outcome: "I don't anticipate any changes in terms...
While the four-day work week may be an inevitability, as Governor Williams said yesterday, this is not the time for its inception. The time is especially unripe for organized labor to demand such a change. The union leaders should be content with consolidating past achievments and increasing the labor movement's prestige in the eyes of the nation...
Such domination by Nasser would trigger a great demand for nationalization of the oil industry and create "absolute chaos," Schwadran claimed. He speculated that this chaos would, at least, cut off the oil supply for a considerable period and, at most, might lead to World...
...hydrogen bomb tests. Strong Parliamentary support behind this resolution has both shaken Gaitskell's leadership and threatened to raise an obstacle to British research in the nuclear field. Any disarmament plans intended to reduce nuclear weapons would now encounter strong British opposition. Both deterrent value and economy appear to demand nuclear research and stockpiling for defense...