Word: planned
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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HIGHWAYS. Along with his housing message, Ike gave Congress notice that he did not like the highway-financing plan just voted by the House Ways & Means Committee, chaired by Arkansas Democrat Wilbur Mills (see below). The committee proposal to boost the federal gasoline tax by 1? a gallon to get the nearly stalled federal-state highway program fueled up again was a "step in the right direction," said Ike (he had urged a 1½ increase), but he objected to the proposal to channel about half the revenue from federal taxes on automobiles and parts into the highway trust fund...
...Three dozen Senators (26 Democrats, 10 Republicans ) joined New York Republican Jacob Javits in sponsoring a resolution declaring it "the sense of the Congress" that the U.S. Government should encourage "in every appropriate way" an American Bar Association plan for "a series of conferences of lawyers from many nations with a view to the strengthening of the rule of law among nations...
...Manhattan Lawyer Grenville Clark, 76, as he received an A.B.A. gold medal for his book, World Peace Through Law: "I hope to continue to work on a feasible plan to substitute law for violence or the threat of it. It is lawyers' work, predominantly lawyers' work. The legal profession in every country in the world must be ultimately summoned to a great conference of lawyers if we are to succeed. The stake is so great the goal is worth the effort...
...paycheck. Says she: "I told them Robbie had just got out of the hospital, where he was treated for acute anemia, and we needed the money for medicine. They wouldn't listen. They're rather coldhearted and impersonal down there." But Margaret Lockwood had a plan of action: she planted herself in a chair and announced she would stay right there until the paycheck was returned...
Military historians have recorded the tactics-an airdrop too far north of the main body at Arnhem, bad communications because of radio breakdowns, not enough air support in foggy weather, the capture of the complete Allied battle plan by the Germans. But it remains for Daniel Paul,*then 29, a captain-surgeon with the 16th Parachute Field Ambulance, to tell the personal story of that terrible battle. It is, he says, a story that "demanded to be written." He tells it deftly and quickly-as he would suture a wound...