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McKays budget request for the current year for the synthetic liquid fuels program was drastically cut. Fourth. In fact. Mr. McKays pruning knife made perhaps its deepest cuts in the Whole Bureau of Mines program. and then officials of his Department made only weak attempts to justify the work of this allimportant agency. wherein coal research is carried out. Perhaps there is more than coincidence in the fact that the synthetic liquid fuels program has been cut back and the fact that coalminers. by and large. supported Governor Stevenson in 1952 while the oil barons were heavy contributors to the Republican campaign fund. New Trends in American Immigration