Word: vital
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Against Russian rocket-rattling and economic recession, mutual security and reciprocal trade measures were more vital than ever. Yet recession gave congressional reactionaries an excuse for a savage fight to "protect" U.S. industry and to kill "giveaways," meaning foreign aid. In general, Congress wrote a responsible foreign relations record against heavy pressures from the irresponsible...
Reciprocal Trade. President Eisenhower asked for five-year reciprocal trade extension, with tariff-cutting authority of up to 25%. During bitter House fight, the Administration applied heat (moaned veteran Tariff Lobbyist Oscar Strackbein: "I have never seen such pressure since the days of Franklin Roosevelt"), got vital help from able Arkansas Democrat Wilbur Mills, chairman of House Ways & Means Committee. House result: 317 to 98 for the President's program, an astonishing victory. But reciprocal trade ran into trouble with the protectionist-dominated Senate Finance Committee. Senate result: a relatively weak bill, with three-year extension and 15% tariff...
...request. But actual appropriations, handled apart from program authorization, got ambushed in the House, where Louisiana Democrat Otto Passman, chairman of key Appropriations Subcommittee, engineered a slash of $597 million below authorization figure ($872 million below Administration request). President Eisenhower desk-hammered at G.O.P. congressional leaders ("This thing is vital to our country's interest") too late to sway House but in time to buck up Senate Appropriations Committee, which restored $440 million. With the Senate likely to follow the committee recommendation, the most probable outcome: a split-the-difference House-Senate compromise, with a final mutual security total...
...first of August the Israeli ambassador in Moscow transmitted to Jerusalem a threatening note he had been handed by the Soviet government. The next day Washington learned that Israel was about to ban the overflights of U.S. and British planes across Israeli territory, thereby cutting off the vital airlift of oil and supplies, one of the few trickles of aid that is reaching beleaguered Jordan...
...Dahomey called upon France to help her territories form a "United States of Africa." De Gaulle apparently would have the West African territories separate states affiliated with France. For all their protests, Africans were careful not to ask for too much too soon, lest France cut off its vital economic aid. What Africa really wanted, explained Deputy Dicko earnestly, "is independence in association with France, not independence-secession...