Word: mollohan
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...West Virginia, 34-year-old Republican Cecil Underwood, onetime teacher of biology and now vice president of Salem (W. Va.) College, upset favored Democrat Robert Mollohan. Underwood, a six-term member of the state house of delegates, campaigned hard and sharp against the statehouse machine, the so-called "flower fund" to which state employees allegedly had to contribute 2% of their salaries, and the state road commission, which, he claimed, made "more millionaires of equipment dealers than it has good roads...
...Charles J. Lowen suggested that progress could be made if Congress would approve the balance of funds for CAA's five-year plan to blanket the sky with long-range radar, which shows the exact position of all airborne planes. The committee chairman, West Virginia Democrat Robert H. Mollohan, then went Lowen one better. Why not telescope the CAA safety project into three years...
...Kilgore, ex-Senator Chapman Revercomb led a Republican field of five, and Governor William C. Marland edged past State Attorney General John G. Fox to win the Democratic nomination. But in the race for governor, Democrats turned their backs on Marland-backed Milton J. Ferguson, picked Congressman Robert H. Mollohan to run against the G.O.P.'s Cecil H. Underwood, minority leader of the state house...
...plants.) The committee was not impressed by the way railroads have been using the write-offs; it concluded that instead of expanding the size of their freight-car fleets, the roads have been using the write offs merely to replace old equipment. West Virginia's Representative Robert Mollohan, subcommittee chairman, noted that from Jan. 1, 1950 to June 1, 1955, Class I railroads (those with annual revenues of at least $1,000,000) bought 310,853 new freight cars under fast write-offs. But they junked 342,287 cars during the same peri od, for a net loss...