Yeah, 2 a day. I think i got 2. 25 after i was promoted to run the drill. On your very first job, you learned how to work with your hands, didnt you . Well, that wasnt quite the whole story. I worked in with my hands when i was a boy. Time was the agony of walking, going from mine to mine, looking for a job. I take it, then, that you during that period, you were able to lay aside a little money for future activities . Well i certainly laid enough money aside to get down to San Francisco and look for a better job. Well mr. Hoover, how did you happen to get into professional engineering after those underground mining days experience . Well, i developed a great friend of dr. Brenner here at stanford. He was one of those men who always boosted youngsters along. He introduced me to the leading engineer in San Francisco, mr. Lewis janner. Mr. Janner gave me a temporary appointment. He had an application for an engineer to go to australia. There i went on my first 10,000 job. Subsequently do
The Supreme Court has two cases remaining, the hobby lobby case on the contraceptive mandate and Health Care Law and another on employee unions. Decisions on those will be announced monday, the final day of the courts term. We have many of this terms oral arguments on our website cspan. Org where you can listen to the cases as they were argued before the Supreme Court. One of the Court Decisions handed down yesterday and talked about during the event we just watched was the case involving an Abortion Clinic buffer zone. Politico has this story about the case. The Supreme Court on thursday unanimously struck down a Massachusetts Law that restricted speech outside abortion facilities. A decision abortion rights advocates decried as a threat to patients safety at clinics nationwide. The court said the state law violated the First Amendment because its buffer zone limited speech too broadly, covering 35 feet from the doorway of facilities including public areas like sidewalks. Thursdays de
Miles an hour. President richard nixon, who had talked with the astronauts by telephone while they were on the moon, was waiting aboard the recovery carrier to welcome the returning voyagers. Kfin the president later expressed the nations response to this historic mission. Some way when those two americans stepped on the moon, the people of this world were brought closer together. That it is that spirit, the spirit of apollo, that america can now help to bring to our relations with other nations. The spirit of apollo transcends geographical barriers and political differences. It can bring the people of the world together in peace. To protect against any possible lunar contamination the astronauts put on airtight special garments before coming on board the rescue ship. They transferred directly from the helicopter to a mobile quarantine van in which they would be flown back to the manned Aircraft Center in houston, texas. July 27th, the journey was ended. They were home again. Ahead lay
But again, we need to boom. We need to boom again. When america is booming again, thats when the jobs come in. When we get people back to work, every person we get back to work, that person is paying Social Security tax. That person is paying medicare tax. That person is paying income tax. That allows taos pay for the critical social Service Programs that we need, like Social Security, medicare, veterans benefits. A booming economy is going to do that. A key to the booming economy is the Booming Energy sector. I again thank my colleague from South Carolina for highlighting the Important Role that the Energy Economy is going to play in relighting america and i yield back. I thank the gentleman from pennsylvania who has been a lead for the congress on Energy Issues because hes gets whats going on in his home state. Mr. Duncan i keep returning to the state of texas, because texas, theyve been developing Energy Resources for a very, very long time. When you think about texas and oklahoma,
Death of a revolutionary. Venezuelan president hugo chavez dies after a long battle with cancer. Hugo chavez dreamed as a young soldier of revolution. He rose up to become president of venezuela a an inspiration for socialists across latin america. He fought for two years against cancer but ultimately lost his battle. Chavez was first elected president in 1998. He redistributed oil profits and won the support of poor voters. He tapped into nationalism and became a thorn in the side to successive u. S. President s. Two years ago doctors detected cancer in his pelvis. Chavez went through several rounds of surgery in cuba. The treatments weakened the once fiery leader. Still, voters reelected him to his fourth term this past october. His inauguration was scheduled to take place in january. But he was not able to leave hospital in havana. Hugo chavez was 58. U. S. Officials are trying to use their leverage to punish their counterparts in north korea. Thamerans introduced a draft resolution