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...Paul Douglas had lost his brave battle to get rid of millions of dollars of pork-barrel items. The only effective gesture at economizing was an amendment directing the Administration to shave 10%, some way, from all non-defense items, for an estimated saving of $525 million. Thus the onus of specific economies would fall on the Administration, while Congress took the credit...
...fact that the prices we ranchers receive have dropped about 30% in the past year, but . . . there seems to be a whole ambush of Ethiopians in the woodpile somewhere between here and the tables at Romanoff's. Maybe if some of you who have heaped the whole onus of beef prices on our heads for the past several years would look into the devious byways of the trade, cowmen could once again go to town in their working clothes without taking the risk of being tarred & feathered with some unpleasant form of meat substitute...
...handled by nonscheduled lines). His pressure on the big operators to adopt new safety measures had cost them money. This week, after he was out, came a safety report which might cost them more. Over Chairman Landis' signature, the President's Air Safety Board put the onus of safety on the airlines, recommended that each employ a full-time safety director, proposed methods to "promote efficiency and safety'' among flight and ground crews...
Paired with the poll resolution was another that reaffirmed the policy which last weekend brought into effect a long-standing rule excluding women from the cheering section. The Council removed any onus for the policy from the H.A.A., and proposed to set up a special staff of ushers to cheels on "overt and patent abuses in the student seating area...
Molotov had hurried to Paris with an 89-man staff (including five bodyguards), which had been assembled overnight with Stakhanovite speed. At first, it looked as though Molotov intended to play along with the American plan for a while, and later try to shift the onus of a possible failure on to the U.S. How that might happen was explained by one diplomat in Paris: "Ice cream would have a better chance of surviving in hell than a big credit plan which includes the Russians would have in the U.S. Congress...