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Kennan was indignant when State flatly and successfully opposed a Republican drive in Congress to write a $100 million Far Eastern section into the Military Assistance Program (MAP). The funds would have been at the disposal of the Administration for discretionary use against Communism in East Asia...
Minority Leader Kenneth Wherry got down to the point. Was there any reason why the Senate couldn't wind up its affairs in another month? Lucas read off a list of the measures still facing the Senate: $14.9 billion worth of appropriations, reciprocal trade, MAP, a farm bill. If the Senate could dispose of all that within a month, said Lucas, "I will eat a hat from any one of the stores in the Senator's city of Omaha, Nebraska...
Because the U.S. now has an oil surplus, U.S. oilmen have been bringing pressure in Washington to cut down imports of foreign oil. Faced with that possibility, Alberta's producers have had to consider alternatives. One might be to pipe the oil from Regina to Port Arthur (see map). Another might be to carry oil to Duluth by pipeline under bond, then ship it by tanker to industrial cities in eastern Canada...
...probably as unreasonable as the weather, but it was just as inescapable. For daddy too was tired. His back ached from the strain, he was feeling economic chills, and he was running into debt. Life was just one crisis after another, bearing ugly, stubby nicknames like ERP and MAP...
Uniforce looks exactly like a command headquarters, although it has no troops to command. Most of the concrete progress at Fontainebleau has been on the technical level. Map work and photographic interpretation have been standardized, as well as some technical equipment, such as naval couplings, which will permit ships of all Western Union navies to refuel one another at sea. The metric linear measure system has been accepted by Western Union artillery, but centigrade has not yet triumphed over Fahrenheit. Basic manuals for all Western Union forces will be published. The five sovereign nations have not, however, exchanged their secret...