Word: barreling
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...making his vetoes stick: of his first 143 vetoes. Congress failed to override a single one. Last week, just before he took off for Europe, the President jeopardized his perfect record with Veto No. 144. Turned down: the lardy, $1.2 billion public works bill, more popularly called "the pork-barrel bill." Objected Ike in his veto message: the bill included 67 new projects not listed in his budget. These projects would add only $50 million to outlays in the current budget, but "their ultimate cost wall be more than $800 million. This illustrates how easily effective control of federal spending...
Some of Congress' top Republicans, including Indiana's House Minority Leader Charles Halleck, advised Ike not to veto the pork-barrel bill, hog-fat as it was. It had passed the House by a voice vote and the Senate by a lopsided 82 to 9, and since it included projects for every state, a lot of Republicans would be tempted to vote to override the veto. Said Iowa's Congressman Ben Jensen, ranking Republican on the Appropriations subcommittee that drafted the measure: "I just can't see how the President could veto this bill." Before boarding...
...their immune serum). It costs about $68 a 20,000-unit vial, and each victim needs at least 50,000 units. Nearest supply was in Portland, Ore.: six vials. More was flown from Denver and Los Angeles. Still not enough. At its Pearl River (N.Y.) headquarters, Lederle drained the barrel, packaged nearly all the remaining antitoxin. Total haul: 139 vials, tagged at $9.591-which Lederle marked "paid," as a public service...
...Latin tunes with a fierce beat. With each bulletin feeding new totals into Quinn's narrow plurality, came still more excitement. A stocky Portuguese-Hawaiian booster gaily swung the crowd into a chorus of When Irish Eyes Are Smiling, and the band broke out into Roll Out the Barrel. And then it was official: Quinn was elected (by 4,000 votes) over the favorite. Democrat John A. (for Anthony) Burns, 50. territorial delegate to Congress, onetime Honolulu cop. one of the architects of Hawaii's Democratic Party, a leader in the long battle for statehood, and just about...
...Plain, by Harry Golden. The twice-bestselling pickle-barrel philosopher (Only in America) may work too hard at being a Jewish Will Rogers, but he rambles on entertainingly about Southern foibles and the good old poorboy days...