Word: congress
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...week Budget Director Frank Pace Jr. flew in with his troubles. The budget for fiscal 1951, he told newsmen, would be "under $45 billion." He added: "In my judgment the budget cannot be balanced without additional taxes." It was also obvious, though he did not say so, that Congress was unlikely to be in a tax-increasing mood. The U.S., already $256 billion in debt and likely to add $5.5 billion to its burden this year, found little warmth in the news that it might go into the red another $7 billion next year...
After picking Brussels as the new organization's permanent site, the congress adopted a manifesto setting forth its policies, and purposes. A committee under the C.I.O.'s Walter Reuther drafted a text which managed to please both the T.U.C. and A.F.L. The slogans adopted...
Experiments in Colorado date back to 1926. They were abandoned in 1929 as unnecessary when new petroleum reserves started coming in, were revived during the wartime oil shortage. At that time Congress appropriated $30 million for large-scale research in synthetic fuel. It seemed a good gamble; geologists estimate that U.S. shale reserves might yield 365 billion barrels of oil, enough to fill U.S. industrial needs for 180 years at the current rate of consumption...
Heading Huber's list of "most active Communist front organizations" were the International Workers Order and the American Slav Congress...
...national scale, each of the local chapters will seek the support of the national organization with which it is affiliated. It will also contact its Washington lobbyists--all of this with the hope of applying pressure directly on Congress to repeal the oath as far as College students are concerned...