Word: oic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Lustron has got no steel to build its houses. But the Department of Commerce's Office of Industry Cooperation has approved an allocation of 58,000 tons of steel to builders of prefab housing, the bulk of it to Lustron. Once before, OIC turned down allocations for steel prefabs, because they require six times as much steel as conventional houses. It reconsidered when RFC and other government agencies intervened. Strandlund and his associates are now sure the steel will come through. As one Lustron executive put it: "Our relations with the Government have always been very healthful...
Last summer, Congress' Republican majority rammed a frog down the throat of the "Voice of America," and left it croaking. The Voice is the short-wave radio section of the State Department's Office of International Information and Cultural Affairs. Suspicious that OIC might be as much a spreader of Democratic propaganda as the democratic way of life, Congress lopped 40% from its requested appropriation, gave it only $12.4 million to operate on this year...
...million, six-year program for OIC was proposed to the House Foreign Affairs Committee by South Dakota's Karl E. Mundt, one of the few Republicans who had fought the curtailment. Recently returned from a tour of 22 European nations, he told the committee: "We are filling their stomachs while the Communists are filling their minds...
...demanded and gotten a special, closed-doors session of the Senate's Appropriations Committee. He wanted another $3 million tacked on to the $13 million just authorized for State's Office of International Information and Cultural Affairs. But the committeemen listened impatiently to his argument that OIC and its "Voice of America" needed more money. They had an old argument of their own to bring...
...This week State, War and Navy Departments and the Atomic Energy Commission asked Congress for permanent authority to fire any employee "in the interest of national security." Congress would no doubt grant it. But the Senators still needed convincing. The most they would give George Marshall for his OIC was an extra...