Word: speedups
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...caboose as best they could. Items: ¶ The Senate shouted through a Lyndon Johnson resolution calling upon the Administration to speed public-works spending on previously authorized projects. The vote: 93 (including 46 Republicans) to 1 (New Hampshire Republican Norris Cotton). Actually, the Administration's public-works speedup was under way without the help of the Johnson resolution. ¶ The Senate passed a $1.8 billion housing bill, 86 to 0, with 44 Republicans supporting the measure authored by Alabama Democrat John Sparkman. At one point Democratic politics came through loud and clear, when the Democrats tried to knock...
...Martin Co. (the Titan ICBM) complained that the Pentagon has "so many people who have the power of negative endorsement" but nobody to give "an absolutely clear-cut decision that you know will stand." Titan is still on a "one-shift basis" and has not received a dollar of speedup money. Curtiss-Wright's President Roy Hurley aimed at the Pentagon budgeteers who withhold money for a program that has been approved by the Joint Chiefs and authorized by Congress: "You should shoot them, or drown them or put 'em in jail." Summed up Donald W. Douglas...
...news of the arrests electrified Major Luis Evencio Carrillo, paratroop battalion commander, and a dozen air force officers of equal or lesser rank. Mostly U.S.-trained and democratically minded, they had apparently planned to rebel much later. Instead, New Year's Eve turned into a night of feverish speedup. From their barracks the paratroopers and others smoothly took over the city of Maracay (pop. 80,000) and the air bases. Before 6:30 a.m., two Sabre jets whined off to Caracas. Over Radio Maracay, the rebels announced: "We have cornered the gangster who surrounded himself with thieves and murderers...
...spending also means that inflation, which dogged the U.S. throughout 1957, will still be present in 1958. The defense speedup may well take up all the deflationary slack in the U.S. economy, and push on from there. While missiles do not require the mountainous raw materials of tanks and planes, they need more and higher-paid skills, on an ever-spreading base. In turn, this means more money in the pockets of consumers for more autos, more appliances, more luxuries of all kinds...
...both parties. The second day was spent reviewing domestic programs with Republicans, headed by Senate Leader Bill Knowland and House Leader Joe Martin. The meetings were held weeks earlier than usual, so as to give ranking members of Congress a chance to participate in the formulation of policy. The speedup was hardly a success: Republicans were indignant because the Democrats were called in so early; Democrats, who had long fumed at being left out until the last moment, now complained that they had not been informed of the proposals to be discussed...