Congress had its busiest week of the session. Besides voting overwhelmingly in favor of air power, it came to grips with everything from U.N. revision to the long-range housing bill (see Housing). In the Senate, Minnesota's Joe Ball hitched up his trousers for a whirl at refurbishing the Taft-Hartley law. In the House, committeemen met behind closed doors to debate extension of the reciprocal trade agreements.
One strident step forward was repeal of the tax on oleomargarine (TIME, May 10). By a vote of 47 to 30, the Senate overruled Arthur Vandenberg's...
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