(6 of 8)
4. Holding up all further expenditures for civilian defense.
5. Launching a filibuster against civil rights legislation.
49. Proposing extreme isolationism in a University of Virginia speech on U.S. foreign policy was ex-Ambassador:
1. Colonel McCormick.
2. Lewis Douglas.
3. Frank Costello.
4. William Bullitt.
5. Joseph P. Kennedy.
50. Adding his ex-Presidential voice to the Great Debate, Herbert Hoover said that the U.S. should:
1. Cut its world commitments down to the Western Hemisphere.
2. Abandon Formosa, Japan and the Philippines.
3. Build the Western Hemisphere into the Gibraltar of civilization.
4. Withdraw from the United Nations.
5. Impeach President Truman for foreign policy failures.
51. Senator Taft stepped into the fray by taking his stand between two pillars of conviction — one that war be tween Russia and the U.S. is not inevitable, and the other that in the event of war the U.S. could never hope to:
1. Defeat Russia.
2. Defeat Russia through air power.
3. Defeat Russia in a great clash of land armies.
4. Defeat Russia with less than a ten-million-man army.
5. Push its troops beyond Paris.
52. Reviewing faults in Taft's and the Administration's programs, this Senator then offered an alternative which included all but one of these proposals:
1. Naval blockade of the Chinese coast.
2. No deals with the Reds to get U.S. forces out of Korea.
3. U.S. support of democratic ways and higher living standards in all non-Communist countries.
4. Withdrawal of U.S. divisions from NATO plans.
5. A 6,000,000-man U.S. armed force.
53. In his State of the Union message the President declared that "the defense of Europe is part of our own defense" and outlined a ten-point legislative pro gram that included all but one of these:
1. A new location for the capital, outside of Washington.
2. Extension and revision of the Selective Service Act.
3 New executive authorities to expand production and stabilize prices, wages and rents.
4. New military appropriations.
5. More foreign military and economic aid.
54. President Truman's budget for fiscal 1951 and 1952 called for:
1. A 23% increase in the national debt.
2. $140 billion for "national security."
3. Price ceilings on farm products.
4. A denial of the "pay as you go" principle.
5. Equal funds for other governmental functions as for national security.
Business and Labor
55. Setting a labor pattern which a number of other big corporations followed, Chrysler Corp.:
1. Adopted a profit-sharing system for all ten-year employees.
2. Voluntarily raised its workers' wages.
3. Signed a "no-strike, no-wage-cut" pact with its union "for the duration."
4. Gave each employee a 1950 car.
5. Signed a closed shop agreement with the U.A.W.
56. After all the worry about shortages, it looked as if the businessman's worst pinch would be in:
1. Lumber.
2. Steel.
3. Uranium.
4. Copper.
5. Manpower
57. President Truman appointed him:
1. Director of Economic Stabilization (a revived OPA).