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...committee's rules are that all testimony be taken under oath; Warren has refused to testify under oath. The committee reluctantly concluded that it could not ordera governor around. ¶The Senate voted to increase by $3 a month Federal assistance to the aged, blind and disabled, boost aid for dependent children by $2 a month. Cost: $140 million more a year. ¶Both houses upped the President's request for $15 million for Midwest flood victims, made it $25 million...
...almost rainless summers, this water will be fed into the Sacramento. When it reaches the delta where the Sacramento and the San Joaquin join, it will be led across the lowlands to a pumping plant at Tracy, in the foothills of the Coast Range. There it will get a boost from six huge pumps to lift it 200 feet into a canal. The pumps run on power from Shasta Dam. At Tracy, as at Grand Coulee, a river is made to raise part of itself above...
...plan, an 813-ft. dam at Ah Pah, near the mouth of the Klamath, will back it far up its southern tributary, the Trinity. A tunnel 60 miles long under the Bully Choop Mountains will export 6,000,000 acre-feet into the Sacramento. After getting a boost from a battery of pumps, the water will follow a canal to Bakersfield. Then another tunnel under the Tehachapi Mountains will take it to Los Angeles, and to needy areas from Santa Barbara to San Diego...
...airplanes for Eastern, the largest replacement order in U.S. aviation history. The orders were for 30 four-engined Lockheed Super-Constellations and 60 twin-engined Martin 4-0-4s. They will add an average of 65 m.p.h. to the speed of the Eastern fleet and will boost passenger capacity...
When all deliveries are made, Eddie Rickenbacker estimates that his big fleet will boost Eastern's traffic revenues, now running at an estimated $105 million a year, to $160 million by 1953. With that much money coming in, Captain Eddie, who is borrowing $30 million from banks for his new planes, expects to pay most of it back, plus the other $70 million, out of earnings. And he doesn't intend to lose money selling his old planes. Demand for secondhand transports is so heavy that the canny captain thinks he can sell them...