Word: extended
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Congress had refused to include $4,000,000 for a steam generator to backstop TVA's water power in dry seasons. "A reckless and irresponsible decision," said the President, pointing out that TVA supplies power for the Oak Ridge atomic plant. He signed the bill to extend the terms of AEC commissioners for two years, but declared that "the refusal of the Republican leadership to put the public interest first. . . invests the atomic energy program with an aura of uncertainty and partisan politics." (He did not recall that he had set Republican teeth on edge by insisting that Chairman...
...District of Columbia, which has been governed by congressional committee for 70 years. ¶ Ignored Secretary George Marshall's urgent request for a three-year extension of the Reciprocal Trade Agreements Act, the nation's most successful experiment in economic internationalism. Instead, it voted to extend the act for one year only, adding a provision which would bring major tariff changes under congressional veto. Senator Arthur Vandenberg announced that when the bill reached the Senate he would do his best to take the veto out again...
...College has a social as well as academic responsibility to its students. In the freshman year this means working through the Union, seeking to extend its facilities for the class. Afterwards it means trying to make the Houses something more than the dining halls and dormitories that, with one or two exceptions, they are now. This implies the use of every possible academic or social device to restore the Houses to their original central purpose. Throughout the individual's four years it means the College's responsibility not to re-emphasize the family and social backgrounds of individuals...
...immediate task will be arranging "bilateral agreements" between the United States and the 16 Marshall Plan nations. After that, his bailiwick will extend to legal questions in each ERP country, as well as to the central structure of the program...
...Received from its Agriculture Committee a bill to extend Government farm-price supports to June 30, 1950 (most farm prices are now above support levels...