Word: extended
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Senate passed and sent to the President (who promptly signed it) the Administration bill to extend the excess-profits tax for six months...
...handicapped the Government of the United States in its efforts to help Iran ... I am not trying to advise the Iranian government on its best interests. I am merely trying to explain why, in the circumstances, the Government of the United States is not presently in a position to extend more aid to Iran or to purchase Iranian oil ... [I] hope that before it is too late the government of Iran will take such steps as are in its power to prevent a further deterioration of [its] situation...
...CONGRESS Ike Gets His Way Once the Administration had battered down the roadblock set up by House Ways & Means Committee Chairman Dan Reed (TIME, July 6), the battle to extend the excess profits tax for six months was won. Last week Ways & Means sent an extension bill to the floor. During the five-hour debate, Virginia's Democrat Howard Smith compared the Administration to a highwayman who says: "Now give me your wallet. I know I ought not to do it . . . but I need the money, and I give you my solemn assurance ... I will never...
...successfully for election in his upstate New York district since 1918, he has never asked a voter to vote for him personally-only for the Republican party. His support comes principally from the rural voters in his district, and yet he was refusing as a matter of principle to extend EPT because he thought EPT damaging to business. Moreover, Reed believed that he was saving the Administration from itself; Treasury Secretary George Humphrey had acknowledged that EPT was a "bad tax," and had defended extension to next January only as a matter of expediency. Reed remembered that...
...Congress moved to extend the Reciprocal Trade Agreements Act for a year and President Eisenhower asked for an appropriation of $500.000 to study the whole question of foreign trade, George Gallup sent his polltakers out to see how the trade winds were blowing. This week, Pollster Gallup announced his conclusion: the people of the U.S., long considered protectionist-minded, are no longer holding up the tariff walls. Gallup's interviewers reported that of 64% who have opinions on the question, 30% want tariffs lowered. 21% want no change, and only 13% want higher levies...