Word: barreling
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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First off, he decided that the $1.7 billion pork-barrel rivers and harbors bill did not measure up to being reasonable, even though Congress had tried to pretend that it was an important antirecession remedy. Among the 154 projects in the barrelful, 28 costing $350 million looked like fat bacon. Example: one section of the bill laid out $269,000 to be spent on the lower Potomac River near Hull Creek, Va. to build a harbor for 41 small boats and 42 skiffs. Army engineers tagged the job uneconomical; the Virginia state government, by failing to promise matching funds...
...lard-heavy rivers-and-harbors authorization. He soon counted too many Republican noes. "I don't believe in idle gestures," said he, and gracefully helped the farm bill along to an agriculture committee that will probably let it mildew for the rest of the session. The pork-barrel bill went to the Public Works Committee for a word-for-word review that might skim off the lard that Ike rejected...
...stopped breathing is the oldest method of artificial respiration known to man (and akin to the oldest technique of real respiration: the Lord's wafting life into Adam's nostrils). But distaste for touching a moribund victim has brought numerous alternatives, from rolling a man over a barrel to the Nielsen "back-pressure, arm-lift" method, which last year superseded the Schafer "prone-pressure" system in the manual of the American Red Cross (TIME...
...House and Senate voted final approval of a $1.5 billion pork barrel rivers-and-harbors authorization bill-with pork fatter by some $34 million in new projects added to the Senate version while the bill was before a conference committee, sent it to the President...
...program, the Administration sent to Capitol Hill a proposal to put an additional $2.2 billion in federal money into the program over the next few years. The Senate Public Works Committee voted an even more souped-up highway bill. The House passed a hog-fat rivers and harbors (pork-barrel) bill...