Word: itemizes
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...began to read. The first item was highway construction. Next came the Administration's military-reserve program. Snapped the President: "This is vital to all of us. Why are we fooling around about it?" He returned to his list: military survivor benefits, housing and health legislation, school construction. When he got to mutual-security authorization and appropriations, he commented acidly: "If anything should go through in a hurry, that should...
...banking and insurance should either 1) shut up shop or 2) operate on a self-supporting basis, and Postal Savings was cited as one activity the Government should give up entirely. The commission urged that Government loans be made at realistic rates and made its case by citation. Item: Rural Electrification Administration loans are made at 2% interest, and are covered by Treasury money borrowed at 3%. In its most controversial report, the commission strongly urged that the U.S. Government keep out of the power business wherever private concerns are willing to take over...
...McCarthy rose in the Senate one afternoon last week with a resolution directing the Secretary of State to insist that the Big Four conference have an agenda item on the status of satellite nations. Since the U.S., Britain and France want no set agenda in meeting with the Russians, the resolution, if passed, would have hamstrung the anti-Communist leaders...
...Public Health Service, Eli Lilly Laboratories and the Lasker Foundation, Dr. Li's project took five years, cost $250,000 and consumed the pituitary glands of 360,000 sheep. Many more sheep will have to be dissected before a simplified form of ACTH becomes a standard item on the druggists' shelves...
Last week's skirmish in the battle over the Dixon-Yates power plant at West Memphis, Ark. was fought on Capitol Hill. In closed session, the Democrat-dominated House Appropriations Committee cut out of the 1956 federal budget a $6,500,000 item for a Dixon-Yates transmission line. The line would pick up Dixon-Yates power at the middle of the Mississippi River and feed it into the TVA system at Memphis, for retransmission to the Atomic Energy Commission. Instead, the House Committee voted that the money should be spent to start a $90 million TVA steam-generating...