Word: pork
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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First off, he decided that the $1.7 billion pork-barrel rivers and harbors bill did not measure up to being reasonable, even though Congress had tried to pretend that it was an important antirecession remedy. Among the 154 projects in the barrelful, 28 costing $350 million looked like fat bacon. Example: one section of the bill laid out $269,000 to be spent on the lower Potomac River near Hull Creek, Va. to build a harbor for 41 small boats and 42 skiffs. Army engineers tagged the job uneconomical; the Virginia state government, by failing to promise matching funds...
...House and Senate voted final approval of a $1.5 billion pork barrel rivers-and-harbors authorization bill-with pork fatter by some $34 million in new projects added to the Senate version while the bill was before a conference committee, sent it to the President...
...highway program, the Administration sent to Capitol Hill a proposal to put an additional $2.2 billion in federal money into the program over the next few years. The Senate Public Works Committee voted an even more souped-up highway bill. The House passed a hog-fat rivers and harbors (pork-barrel) bill...
...people, clothed in a peculiar virtue compiled of poverty, helplessness, and remoteness from worldly success-a mass of mute, suppressed idealists languishing beneath the boot of the German captor." The real boot, of course, was the Soviet reign of terror; Lenin and Trotsky, between hasty Kremlin lunches "of salt pork, buckwheat grits, and red caviar," were stamping out all political opposition. Wilson might never have heeded Anglo-French pleas for intervention had it not been for "sentimental" considerations involving the Czechs, to whose postwar birth as a nation Wilson was passionately dedicated...
...Cudahy Packing -have already signed more than 100 contracts with farmers. Swift is reportedly planning to start a contract-farming program in Georgia. Feed companies are also promoting contract farming, since it increases the market for their products. One of the pioneer promoters of the plan in the pork industry is Kansas City's aggressive Staley Milling Co., which supplies feed to contractors of all three packers using the plan, has sent its men around to boost it at farmers' meetings...