Word: provisionals
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When it came to the basics of the bill that Rayburn and Martin had pledged themselves to save-the provision for long-term economic aid and the Administration's request for $3.8 billion in foreign-aid funds-the House's Big Two, and the President, too, took a...
Impressed, House members, sitting as the committee of the whole, struck out the section. Soon after the House reconvened (as the House), the Democrats who proposed the provision in the first place rallied votes, stuck it back in again by a 230-to-183, party-line vote. Unless the Senate...
¶The House, reversing an earlier decision, agreed to a Senate provision keeping the soil-bank program alive for one more year (see BUSINESS). Under a compromise in the $3.6 billion Agriculture Department appropriation bill $500 million is allowed for the soil bank, but payments to individual farmers (now unlimited...
The terms were surprising because only a few months ago Iran demanded a 75-25 profit split from interested Italian investors v. the 50-50 split that is general in the Middle East. Parliament was preparing to write the new terms into law when the Shah intervened. Realizing that the...
The best example of how Iranian attitudes have changed since the xenophobic days of Premier Mossadegh is a provision allowing the Shah and NIOC to negotiate directly with foreign firms without the preliminary wrangling in the Majlis that discouraged many a prospective investor in the past. With the new law...