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...leaders in Congress had "cut the reclamation program for the West by more than 50%." He continued: "Now, what do you suppose the Republican chairman of the Appropriations Committee [New York's John Taber] thought about your protests? He said, 'The West is squealing like a stuck pig.' That is what the Republican leaders thought about you [in] this part of the world."* In touchy Texas, Candidate Truman had not a word to say about civil rights or Dixiecrats...
...Democrats dug deep, bought national radio coverage. *John Taber shot back: "Mr. Truman knows that I never made any such statement. What I said was this: 'The minute anyone demands a business administration and elimination of the leeches in the Government payroll, they squeal like a stuck pig.' " *A local delicacy which can be shot only between 4 p.m. and sunset on three days a year...
Some 600 "reconverted" men of 16 different nationalities have formed a McIndoe alumni group called "The Guinea Pig Club." The lighthearted lyrics of the club's anthem are a tribute to Sir Archibald's success in salvaging minds as well as faces...
...committee soon discovered that Republic needed the plant's hot metal (to make steel) as badly as the foundrymen needed the pig iron. That gave White and Kaiser a reason to get together. At week's end, the two old feuders parked their popguns and signed a temporary truce...
Under it, Kaiser-Frazer got the plant, but agreed to let Republic run it until next May; by then Republic was expected to have a new pig-iron source. Meanwhile, Republic will supply K-F with 5,000 tons out of its monthly 37,500-ton pig-iron production. Charlie White had driven a shrewd bargain. His rent to Kaiser-Frazer is $1.40 a ton of iron produced, while Kaiser-Frazer must pay WAA $1.50. Thus, as long as White runs the plant, Kaiser loses a dime on every ton of iron that Republic makes...