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24528 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS August 4, 1978 effective means of combatting and controlling H. Res. 1202. May 24, 1978. International space; and (4) the number of telephone world terrorism. Relations; Judiciary. Expresses the sense of lines. H. Res. 1196. May 22, 1978. Interstate and the House that the President should urge the H. Res. 1210. May 31, 1978. Rules. Amends Foreign Commerce. Declares that it is the U.S. High Commissioner on Refugees to as the Rules of the House of Representatives sense of the House that the Food and Drug sign the highest priority to alleviating the respecting travel by Members and employees Administration should not promulgate any terrible plight ot the Southeast Asian refu of committees ot the House. rules or restrictions on the use and distribu gees by evolving a long-term international H. Res. 1211. May 31, 1978. Interstate and tion of penicillin and tetracycline products resettlement project to guarantee refuge and Foreign Commerce. Expresses the sense of the in animal feeds at low levels until a well assistance to those who flee the oppressive House of Representatives that the Congress designed epidemiological study and a thor regimes of Indochina. Declares that the Pres should promptly pass proposed legislation ough benefit-risk determination are made ident should take all necessary steps to open that would comprehensively revise the tele concerning the satety of such products. our doors to the greatest extent possible to communications policy of the United States H. Res. 1197. May 23, 1978. International the refugees of Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia. in order to promote the application of new Relations. Expresses the concern of the H. Res. 1203. May 24, 1978. Government telephone technology and the expansion or House of Representatives regarding the Operations; Ways and Means. Declares that nationwide telephone service at uniform slaughter of dolphins by Japanese fishermen it is the sense of the House of Representa and low rates. in the Sea of Japan on February 23 and 24, tives that the Federal Budget must be H. Res. 1212. June 1, 1978. Sets forth the 1978. brought into balance and outlines steps rule for the consideration of H.R. 11493. Encourages the Government of Japan to which must be taken to achieve such a H. Res. 1213. June 1, 1978. Sets forth the join in certain discussions and information budget by 1980. rule for the consideration of H.R. 12250. exchanges in an effort to eliminate such H. Res. 1204. May 25, 1978. Sets forth the H. Res. 1214. June 1, 1978. Sets forth the slaughter. rule for the consideration of H.R. 12598. rule for the consideration of H.R. 12433. H. Res. 1198. May 23, 1978. Post omce and H. Res. 1205. May 25, 1978. Sets forth the H. Res. 1215. June 1, 1978. Sets forth the Civil Service. Expresses the appreciation of rule for the consideration of H.R. 12240. rule for the consideration of H.R. 12505. the House of Representatives to Bob Hope on H. Res. 1206. May 25, 1978. sets forth the H. Res. 1216. June 5, 1978. Expresses the the occasion of his 75th birthday, May 25, rule for the consideration of H.R. 12426. sorrow of the House of Representatives upon 1978. H. Res. 1207. May 25, 1978. House Admin the death of a former Senator from Arkansas. H. Res. 1199. May 23, 1978. Interstate and istration. Provides that where two or more Directs the appointment of a House com Foreign Commerce. Declares it the sense of Members of the House of Representatives mittee to attend the funeral of the late the House of Representatives that steps pay the basic pay of an individual from the senator. should be taken to insure that more emcient clerk-hire allowance of each such Member, H. Res. 1217. June 5, 1978. International use is made of the existing stock of railroad such individual shall be considered to be on Relations. Declares the sense of the House freight cars and power equipment and to en the payroll of only one such Member for of Representatives that the !allure of the courage the acquisition of new cars and purposes of determining the number of in Soviet Union to comply with international equipment in order to meet the needs of dividuals employed by such Members under agreements to which that country is a sig American agriculture. the clerk-hire allowance. natory, and the increased involvement by H. Res. 1200. May 23, 1978. Government H. Res. 1208. May 31, 1978. Sets forth the the Soviet Union in m111tary activities, raise Operations. Expresses the disapproval of the rule for the consideration of H.R. 15. doubts with respect to the sincerity of the Senate of the Reorganization Plan Numbered H. Res. 1209. May 31, 1978. House Admin Soviet Union concerning a second strategic 2 transmitted to the Congress by the Presi istration. Limits any increase by any commit arms limitation agreement, and that the dent on May 23, 1978. tee of the House of Representatives during President, at this time, should not enter H. Res. 1201. May 24, 1978. Government the 96th Congress in the following categories: into a new strategic arms limitation agree Operations. Expresses the disapproval of the ( 1) the amount of available funds for in ment with the Soviet Union until the Soviet senate of the Reorganization Plan Numbered vestigations and inquiries; (2) the funds Union honors its commitments. 2 transmitted to the congress by the Presi available for the hiring of, and the number H. Res. 1218. June 6, 1978. Sets forth the dent on May 23, 1978. of staff personnel; ( 3) the amount of omce rule for the consideration of H.R. 12930. EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS RISE OF FEDERAL EXPRESS freight company whose orange, white, and phis, and he laughed about that college in purple delivery vans are becoming almost as cident. Said Smith: "The professor didn't conspicuous in some metropolitan areas as understand how the god-damn world the local taxi. The stock, which came out worked ... tJhat America was spreading out HON. BILL ALEXANDER early in April at 24, skyrocketed to a recent technologically ... that the emcacy of our OF ARKANSAS record high of 47Y:z in the volatile over-the society is to be smarter, not to work harder. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES counter market. What, you ask, is behind it This meant the creation of a host of new all? productivity-improving equipment with in Friday, August 4, 1978 For some insights, I recently went to hot, numerable complex parts ... And the need • Mr. ALEXANDER. Mr. Speaker, re sticky Memphis (population: 775,000) to see for early delivery of such items was becom cently the Washington Post financial the company's dynamic founder: 33-year-old ing as urgent between Appleton, Wisconsin, pages carried an article about Federal Frederick W. Smith. A graying rich kid who and Lubbock, Texas, as it was between New Express Co., a company born in my part made it on his own. Smith is a noteworthy York and Chicago . ." example of the imaginative and aggressive A vietnam veteran with more than 200 of the country. It termed the company's entrepreneur who is still alive and throbbing combat missions and the the son of a wealthy president, Frederick W. Smith, as "a in the South. businessman who founded Dixie Greyhound noteworthy example of the imaginative About 12 years ago-when he was 21- Bus Lines, Smith didn't have an easy time and aggressive entrepreneur who is still Smith turned in his college thesis at Yale. getting Federal Express off the ground. alive and throbbing in the South.'' Its premise: There's no way airlines can com There were times, in fact, Smith may have Those of us who know Fred and have pete effectively with either truckers or rail thought his professor was right. Federal Ex roads in the transportation of bulk freight. press, incorporated in the summer of 1971 watched him overcome the trials and However, after exhaustive research, Smith (Smith was 26 at the time), didn't begin tribulations of running a successful busi saw glowing potential-a booming business, lts air freight service until April of 1973. In ness are proud of his accomplishments. in fact-in an airline service that could de- t~e previous year-while the mechanics of I would like to share that Post article . liver overnight small (under 70 pounds), the business were being thrashed out-the with my colleagues at tbis point: high-priority packages. These products company ran chartered flights. [From the Washington Post, Aug. 3, 1978] would run the gamut from integral parts of It was agony the first few years. The first computers and diagnostic equipment to hu BEHIND THE FAST RISE BY FEDERAL EXPRESS profitable month wasn't until July of 1975, man organs and legal briefs. His skeptical and there were major financing problems. In (By Dan Dorfman) professor didn't think such a business had fact, things got so bad in early 1973 that the Quick now, what's the hottest stock issue of a ghost of a chance, considering the airline 150 employees on the job that year were 1978? No, it's not Resorts International (the industry's intense competition and heavy asked not to cash their checks right away. first entry into Atlantic City gambling). Re regulation. Nevertheless, he gave Smith a Around the same time, Smith was in Chi sorts has been public a long time. Give up? passing grade, but a mediocre one-a C. cago trying to raise capital. He didn't get it.