Word: hr
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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After brief debate one hot August afternoon last year, the House voted 393 to 1 for a bill making it a federal felony to knowingly destroy or mutilate a draft card. HR 10306, which the Senate passed by a voice vote, was aimed at what its proponents described as "beatniks and so-called 'campus cults,' " meaning anyone who burns his draft card to protest U.S. policy in Viet Nam. Penalty: five years' imprisonment or a $10,000 fine or both...
...Committee had all its weapons readied at Emerson Hall last night: movies and slides of the wonders of Nature and the blunders of men who tamper with it, a panel discussion (which was eventually scrapped), and petitions and night letter forms for persuading legislators to vote against HR...
...HR 4671 is a bill now in the House Rules Committee which would provide water for the parched Southwest. In order to finance the project, the bill includes plans for construction, of two dams--one upstream from the Grand Canyon and one downstream--to provide hydroelectric power...
Arizona can sell the power, to help pay for the other parts of HR 4671. The Bureau of Reclamation has called the dams a "cash-register project...
...strike that had idled 26,000 seamen, tied up some 900 ships, and may already have cost the British economy perhaps as much as $300 million. There was no reason not to, since the seamen had obtained nearly everything they wanted: a reduction of the work week to 40 hr. by next June (meaning more overtime), plus the promise of a whopping 48 days of annual leave. The settlement will increase the shipowners' labor costs at least 9.5% over a two-year period, shattering Wilson's 3.5% annual-increase guideline against inflation. Even so, the Communists and many...