Word: sst
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...SST issue similarly will carry over, since a Senate filibuster against the aircraft led by Wisconsin Democrat William Proxmire proved effective in blocking a definitive decision to continue desired by Washington's Boeing-conscious Democrat Henry Jackson and other SST supporters. Overriding the objections of South Dakota Democrat George McGovern and other liberals, the Senate grudgingly accepted a House-passed food-stamp bill that disqualifies a family from the benefits if it includes an able-bodied adult who refuses to accept work...
...November elections, U.S. voters discarded six of the twelve Congressmen with the worst environmental records, and approved $1 billion in bond issues for pollution controls. In December came the Senate's remarkable ?and unexpected?vote against funding that ecological nemesis, the SST. Last week a Harris poll showed that Americans now regard pollution as "the most serious" problem confronting their community?well ahead of crime, drugs and poor schools...
...part, the U.S. faced hard choices between ecology and economics. President Nixon set the pattern for official action: a zigzag between environmental reforms and worries about the recession. He supported the SST, partly to help save 20,000 aerospace jobs and ordered more timbering in national forests despite objections of environmentalists and Congressmen. To soothe oil producers, he opened up 543,897 acres in the oil-polluted Gulf of Mexico for oil exploration and drilling...
...years, Boeing employment has plummeted from 101,500 to 46,800. By the end of 1971 it will probably sink to 32,500. It could go as low as 25,000 if the U.S. Senate goes through with its threat to cut off funds for Boeing's SST development program, a project that still employs 4,800 workers. The company has already sold one plant, closed another, auctioned off surplus equipment and furniture, consolidated assembly lines, cut its 747 jumbo-jet production from 7½ a month to 5. ∙ The Boeing cuts have given Seattle unemployment a rather...
Dilatory Approach. The battles were not yet over, and it seemed likely that the Senate was about to deny the President his welfare reform and trade quotas, and might still shoot down the SST. It had not even bothered to consider one of his most desired programs: a system of sharing federal tax revenues with the states. It had so altered another Nixon reform, a manpower retraining act designed to consolidate various antipoverty programs, that the President last week vetoed the resulting bill. His main complaint was that it provided too much money for what he called "dead-end, W.P.A...