Word: reporter
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Despite the subcommittee's stark warning, the U.S. Congress plainly intended to keep its head in the sand on civil defense: just two days after the House subcommittee issued its report, the Senate Appropriations Committee flatly turned down Civil Defense Boss Leo Hoegh's modest request for $13,150,000 to get a prototype shelter program started...
...last hours of the 85th Congress, the U.S. Senate began to feel the heat. Last week, while dozens of important bills awaited Capitol Hill attention, the Senate managed to waste a full day in noisy debate over the year's silliest issue. Cause of the feckless fight: a report that the Defense Department was subsidizing studies about what sort of surrender terms the U.S. should request when and if it gets conquered by Russia...
...surrender" egg, originally hatched out of a St. Louis Post-Dispatch article, was set down in the slow incubator of the Congressional Record (along with two routine editorials on farm legislation) by Missouri's Democratic Senator Stuart Symington. The report stayed quietly warm for four days, then popped from its shell. Somehow, perhaps even by finally getting around to reading the Record, it came to the attention of Republican Senators. When the G.O.P. congressional leaders went to the White House for a legislative meeting with the President, they asked the Army's Dwight Eisenhower what all the surrender...
...report called for "immediate action" to adjust fares, restore higher earnings and investor confidence. It thus presented a White House mandate to the Civil Aeronautics Board, which has been dawdling over a general passenger-fare investigation since the spring of 1956, is not scheduled to complete it until next March. "By that time," noted Quesada in a covering letter to the President, "the success or failure of major segments of the equipment program may well have been determined. The CAB must examine the carriers' proposals promptly...
While spanking CAB, the report also slapped the airlines. It questioned whether the carriers will be able to fill the additional 40 billion seat-miles that the speed and greater capacity of the new jets will make available by 1962. The report's conclusion: The airlines will not be able to unless they get busy right away researching new markets and developing special programs to attract new passengers. The Government can lend a hand in assisting traffic growth, said the report, by repealing the transportation tax and turning over to commercial carriers more of the passenger and cargo traffic...