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Government Spending: FOR: all major Administration appropriations bills; led the fight for funds to expand TVA power facilities with the Johnsonville steam plant. AGAINST (with Truman): all major attempts to trim fat and pork-barrel projects out of Rivers & Harbors bills and other congressional appropriations...
...dockworker tore the false bottom out. White reached into the trunk and pulled out 8 Ibs. of fine Mettwurst, a German pork boloney, homemade by Bohling's relatives. White ripped the sausages to shreds, looking for dope or diamonds. There was only Mettwurst. The Department of Agriculture man confiscated it all pursuant to Bureau of Animal Industry Order No. 373, which forbids the importing of uncertified meat from countries infested with foot-and-mouth disease...
...dollars, it would rise 152,935 miles; it totals nearly three times all the U.S. currency in circulation. Congress took one look at the monster and began screaming for cuts. The Administration replied, as usual: fine, but where? The legislators, as usual busy with many things (including their own pork barrels), have neither the time nor the technical manpower to work out a convincing answer...
...plans, no matter how well-intended, had a suspicious look in an election year. Badly used, they could easily turn the defense program into a gigantic pork barrel. In any case, they would boost the cost of an already inflated arms program...
...pork, which has long been selling under its retail ceilings. One big Midwest food chain cut prices on pork chops 10? a Ib. to 73?, planned another 10? cut this week. Elsewhere, housewives were loading up on the biggest pork bargains in months as a near-record pig crop (66,000 last week) came to market...