Word: philadelphia
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...rolling stock that would be rented to the roads. He believes that the long-haul rail passenger is a vanishing breed (Pennsy's 1958 passenger deficit: $44 million) and that the only way to save commuter service is to have communities pay the losses. The Pennsy and Philadelphia are now trying such an experiment. Many western railroadmen disagree with Symes's plan for subsidy and equipment purchase, but admit that the eastern roads have so much more trouble than others that they may need such help. Says Symes : "We have every problem there is. You name...
Acting contrary to its original plans, and obeying instructions of the Office of Civil and Defense mobilization, the Army Corps of Engineers has accepted a bid of $1,757,000 from a Philadelphia company and has rejected an English Electric Company bid that was $300,000 lower. In doing this, it was allegedly acting under the "Buy America Act," which provides for the rejection of foreign contracts in cases of national security...
...avoid this argument, the Administration has urged vague claims of "national security" requiring the operation of the Philadelphia contractor. Since the war, this firm has been awarded contracts in England totalling over twelve times the value of the present one, all of which have been in areas affecting the "national security" of Great Britain. To discourage British trade is to invite retaliation, which would reduce the business of the very American company whose continued operation is the alleged goal of the present contract. Critics also point out that earlier the Administration said the dam was not worth constructing...
Equally damaging are charges that the Philadelphia firm secured the contract due to lobbying on the part of Senator Hugh Scott, Republican of Pennsylvania. Shortly before his election last November, Scott told his electorate that he had personal assurances from the While House that the local company would get the contract. At that time the Army had not even completed its study of the bids. This has aroused the charge of "prostitution of the country's trade policy for political reasons," from the Democratic chairman of the Foreign Trade Policy Subcommittee...
played by London's Old Vic Company, in PHILADELPHIA...