Word: mckenna
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Philip McKenna of Kennametal Inc. told a House committee that the U.S. already has enough tungsten to last 18 years. He called the stockpiling program an out-and-out "boondoggle," called further appropriations "silly." A recent House report had said that of some 700 producers who were supposed to benefit from the program only 49 have actually participated, and the top nine have received 87% of the funds. McKenna added further facts: Kennametal's subsidiary mine, Nevada Scheelite Corp., has taken in $10 million from selling tungsten solely to the U.S. Government. For its own needs, Kennametal, a Pennsylvania...
...McKenna's attack pleased the House Appropriations Committee, which has already knocked out a supplemental 1957 subsidy, displeased Western mining state Senators, who restored the request and raised the subsidy in the Senate appropriations bill to $40 million. They argue that ending the subsidy would end the domestic industry within 90 days. Actually, loss of the subsidy would probably not put all domestic tungsten miners out of business, since far more are selling to industry than to Government. But with the Government out of the market, tungsten prices might go down. In any case, there seemed no doubt that...
...Lark was seen by some 26 million viewers, roughly 125 times the number who saw Actress Harris' 208 Broadway performances, and probably many more than have seen all the Joans (including Winifred Lenihan, Katharine Cornell, Ingrid Bergman. Uta Hagen. Siobhan McKenna) of the American stage combined...
...plays presented last year were "Henry V," directed by Douglas Seale of the Old Vic, "The Beggar's Opera," and a performance of Saint Joan" with Siobhan McKenna. This year's program has not been announced...
Many of us consider Miss McKenna the finest actress to be seen anywhere on the stage today. Archibald MacLeish, in his brief but beautifully phrased introductory remarks, welcomed her back to Sanders, "where her voice still rings from last summer," and presented her not only as a great actress but also as a scholar. She began by mentioning Sanders as the site of "my own favorite performances of my own favorite part," and then commenced her readings of Irish poetry, interlarded with informal commentary...