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...Having made these points, Juan Trippe then gave the nod to a Senate bill, introduced by Nevada's Pat McCarran, which would establish the "chosen instrument," or federally regulated "community company." Such a bill would also mean the end of Pan Am as an operating agency. But Pan Am's equipment and know-how would form the nucleus of any postwar U.S. combine-at least at the outset...
Nevada's silver-maned, paunchy Senator Pat McCarran, busily running for reelection, fortnight ago tried to turn this Western suspicion into votes. He proposed to the Senate that $7,000,000,000 worth of Government-owned war plants in eleven northeastern states be "frozen." Much Eastern reconversion would thus be halted till postwar industry could be expanded in the West and South. (Cried Massachusetts' Governor Leverett Saltonstall: "A plan characteristic of Hitler...
...subcommittee of the Senate Judiciary Committee last week charged that U.S. distillers had deliberately planned the U.S. liquor drought in order to boost their profits. The subcommittee, headed by Ne vada's Senator Pat McCarran, and including such men as West Virginia's Harley Kilgore. Utah's Abe Murdock and Michigan's Homer Ferguson, accused the liquor industry of using its self-imposed program of rationing liquor to dealers as a scheme by which many rationed profits for themselves...
...Attorney General's request to testify, Pat McCarran haughtily replied: the committee wished to reach its conclusions on the facts-"unswayed by emotional arguments...
Presumably Francis Biddle, who testified for six hours last week before a House investigating committee, will be heard again when the full Senate Judiciary Committee takes up the McCarran report. But before then the whole Montgomery Ward issue may flare anew. This week, before the WLB, the company must show cause why it should not restore the old union contract (containing maintenance of union membership). If the company refuses, as Sewell Avery has said it will, the only Administration recourse would seem to be to seize the plant all over again...