Word: omnibus
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Bosses of Havana's embattled bus company, the Cooperativa de Omnibus Aliados, have suffered and bled for years over the old Cuban custom of filtración. Under this time-honored racket, unscrupulous conductors on the company's rickety, orange-painted guaguas (pronounced wah-wahs) have filtered up to 40% of each day's fares into their own pockets. Last year, in a desperate effort to replace the conductors with temptation-proof turnstiles, the company offered to retire all surplus conductors at full pay. Their union-the Sindicato de Empleados de Omnibus Aliados-refused...
...could be sure of support for speedy enactment of ERP; the House Foreign Affairs Committee voted out its omnibus foreign-aid bill at week's end. But there was scarcely anything Harry Truman could have recommended that could have aroused more controversy than U.M.T. and a peacetime draft...
...shape a foreign policy both stronger and more coherent. But aid to Europe would pass-and probably soon enough to undercut at least some Communist propaganda in the Italian elections next month. The House, which was still planning to combine ERP with all other foreign aid projects in one omnibus bill, was heading for an April 1 passage. That gave Arthur Vandenberg 18 days to iron out the last differences in conference...
While the Senate debated ERP (see above), New Jersey's old Charley Eaton and his House Foreign Affairs Committee set to work on a monumental project: to combine all U.S. aid programs in one omnibus bill. The committee worked in a mood of impatience-an impatience directed chiefly toward the State Department...
When Wedemeyer was done, no doubt remained among Foreign Affairs committeemen that their omnibus bill would contain I) a broad and bristling statement of U.S. global intentions, and 2) a commitment of $570 million to China, with at least $100 million earmarked for arms...