Word: mahon
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Died. William D. Mahon, 88, veteran labor leader and oldtime crony of the late Samuel Gompers in organizing the A.F.L., for 53 years (until he retired in 1946) president of what is now the Amalgamated Association of Street, Electric Railway and Motor Coach Employees of America; in Detroit...
...feeling of helplessness came from trying to put an exact price tag on what it would cost to meet the unknown. Texas' shy, scholarly George Mahon, chairman of the Appropriations subcommittee, made the point: "If war comes too soon we are appropriating too little. If we have miscalculated the dangers, if the threat of war is just a deceptive mirage on the horizon, we are appropriating too much...
...Mahon could only hope that his final figure sensibly measured the distance between the two extremes. He and his committee had talked it over for eleven weeks with the nation's top military people: the past & present Secretaries of Defense, the three Secretaries and their chiefs of staff. The military agreed that if war immediately threatened, the bill should be at least $50 billion, not $15 billion. Said Mahon: "These men did not predict an early outbreak of war, but they agreed that some unpredictable development might throw us suddenly into conflict . . . This, however, was not anticipated . . . No military...
...difference, explained Representative George Mahon, reflected the conviction of the committeemen that "the only force under heaven that can now deliver the quick and devastating blow is the United States Air Force." Said Mahon: "We put the emphasis of air power in this bill...
More Planes, Please. Mahon had hardly completed his mild, deliberate introduction to next year's blueprint for defense when Georgia's crusty old Carl Vinson took the floor. A smart, longtime supporter of a big Navy who had come to a realization of the importance of air power, Carl Vinson was not arguing against the air. He simply wanted more planes for the Navy's air arm. The bill, he said, pointing an accusing finger at Mahon, would put the replacement rate for aircraft so low that the Navy would be down to 4,000 planes within...