Word: mid-may
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...year program in principle, and authorize a $6.8 billion appropriation for the first 15 months only. The way things looked now, the Administration would be lucky to get an authorization for as much as $5 billion. And it could not expect to get final congressional approval of ERP until mid-May, at the earliest. Hearings on the bill would start immediately, but the list of witnesses was half a mile long...
...mid-May, as it turned out, the Senate had been in session 75 days and had passed 196 public bills and resolutions; the House had been in session 77 days, had passed 157. By the standards of other Congresses this was a fair record...
Intolerable Situation. Since mid-May, when the first Paris meeting failed, no progress had been made by the chancelleries or by the deputies of the foreign ministers on the basic questions: 1) what type of regime to give Germany; 2) whether or not to internationalize the steel-producing Ruhr; 3) how to solve Yugoslavia's claims to Trieste; 4) on what to base peace treaties with Italy and the other former Axis satellites...
...Since mid-May, 1,000 G.I.s and Germans a day have thronged through an A.M.G.-sponsored art show in Wiesbaden. In paintings gathered from bombed-out German museums (notably Berlin's Kaiser Friedrich), they saw the work of such Flemish masters as Van Eyck, Gerard David and Van der Goes, such Germans as Dürer, Grünewald and Holbein. But the popular favorite by a day's march was Cranach's 16th-Century Fountain of Youth. His cosily detailed vision of the fountain seemed as real as a park pool. Cranach made people half-believe...
...last Jap holds on the Philippines were being pried loose. On Mindanao last week two U.S. Army divisions were pressing close to Davao. A second landing was made on Negros. Major General Innis P. Swift's I Corps, racing the rainy season that starts in mid-May, stepped up its drive over the razor-backed ridges of northern Luzon and captured Baguio, summertime capital of the islands...