Word: billings
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...jacketed, masked bandits turned up from Newton to Omaha. Brink's uniforms and burglar tools were seized in a raid by detectives in Cleveland. A dollar bill that was supposedly part of the identifiable $98,000 was seen by somebody in Salt Lake City. Dust samples from a North End truck were rushed to F.B.I. laboratories. A Brink's gun was found in back of a store in Somerville...
...death list for the year to 109, as many as had been killed in all U.S. crashes on scheduled U.S. airlines in 1950. New York's newly elected Mayor Vincent Impellitteri hurried home from Cuba to order an investigation. Governor Thomas E. Dewey-who had vetoed a legislative bill aimed at weeding out railroad engineers with bad safety records-called on the bankrupt line's two court-appointed trustees to resign. They stolidly refused. A wave of vehement indignation swept New York. Newspapers baldly used the word "murder" in editorials (see PRESS), and millions of shocked and frightened...
Whatever Stam's exact words were, they gave the committee pause. Sentiment grew for a compromise bill that would combine a mild excess-profits tax with a slight boost in the regular rates on corporation income...
Drawing up such a compromise would take time, perhaps too much for a bill to be passed even by the House before Christmas. Even if the House did pass it, most legislators doubted that the Senate would during the lame-duck session...
Seven professors and two teaching follows will meet in the Faculty Club this afternoon to discuss methods of revising the McCarran Bill. The group will also review the problem of protecting civil liberties in the present war crisis...