Word: jointed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...which the Republican leaders set out to cut by $6,000,000,000. Acting under the legislative budget provisions of the Legislative Reorganization Act of 1946, the Finance and Appropriations Committees of the Senate, and the Ways and Means and Appropriations Committees of the House met in joint session, and, by chance, arrived at the same $6,000,000,000 figure as the feasible size of the cut. This decision was made by twenty members of the joint committee, meeting in secret, and imposed on the rest of the membership...
Carl J. Friedrich, professor of Government, will conclude a series of three lectures on problems of German occupation tonight at 8 o'clock in LiManer Auditorium with a speech entitled "Democratization and Decentralization." Friedrich's talks were presented under the joint auspices of the Department of Government and the Graduate School of Public Administration...
...different kind of party for these three-year-old children of Harvard students. Twenty of them, representing Protestant, Catholic, and Jewish faiths, gathered in the Harvard University Nursery School yesterday and kindled the seven branched menorah in joint observance of the age-old Hebrew festival of Chanukah...
...Joint Anti-Fascist Refugee Committee, chairmaned by Dr. Edward K. Barsky, now out on bail pending appeal of his conviction for contempt of Congress...
Fire Bug. A joint Government-industry committee put its finger on the cause of fires aboard two Douglas DC-6 planes, which had led U.S. airlines and Douglas Aircraft Co. to ground all DC-6s in service. As expected (TIME, Nov. 24), CAB decided that the gasoline tank vent forward of an air scoop permitted gasoline to be sucked into the heating system, where it ignited. Douglas plans to move the vent and make some other minor design changes, paying for them itself. The airlines do not expect to get the 92 grounded planes back into service until next month...