Word: sst
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...applauded yesterday's Senate vote to refuse further Federal funds for the SST...
Serious Students. The SST advocates are directly pressuring Congress as well. AFL-CIO President George Meany told a Senate Appropriations Subcommittee that the entire future of the American aerospace industry, already "in a state of economic shock," was at stake. He claimed that the SST could generate 50,000 aerospace jobs and another 150,000 in related industries. The U.S. is now too late to catch other nations in the first generation of SSTs, Meany argued, and it must hurry to "enter the competition for the second generation -the SSTs of the 1980s and 1990s...
Boycott Cheese. The SST supporters have deluged Congress and potential backers elsewhere with a mail blitz of 400,000 pieces of literature. In smooth prose, they seek to rebut each criticism of the plane and to stress its economic benefits. One broadside claims that "one SST sold overseas will offset the import of 20,000 Volkswagens or 200,000 Japanese TV sets...
...campaign has reversed the trend of congressional mail. Just two weeks ago. Freshman Senator Lloyd Bentsen of Texas was getting about 100 letters a week about the aircraft, 80% of them opposed. Now he gets 450 letters a week about the SST-and 80% are favorable. A particular target is the plane's most effective opponent, Wisconsin Senator William Proxmire. Backers have passed out bumper stickers intended to punish Proxmire on his home turf. One urges a boycott of Wisconsin cheese. In a lighter vein, another proclaims...
...SST may yet get off the ground. The House, which approved further funding last year by 14 votes, is expected to do so again. The showdown will be in the Senate, where more money was rejected by an eleven-vote margin. Not at all certain that the Senate will repeat that opposition, Proxmire is urging states to ban SSTs of any nation from their airports. Five states are considering such legislation. Concedes Proxmire about the pro-SST assault on the Hill: "It's the kind of campaign I've seen pay off again and again in Congress...