Word: program
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...benefited personally or politically by the choice of the B-36 (TIME, June 6). In a letter he delivered personally to Chairman Vinson, Air Secretary Stuart Symington categorically denied this "basic innuendo." Every airplane the Air Force had ordered, wrote Symington, and every step in the B-36 program had been approved by the nation's top air commanders. At no time had "any higher authority attempted to recommend in any way the purchase of any airplane." As to reports that his own efforts in behalf of the B-36 would be rewarded with the presidency of a "huge...
Stultifying? On the eve of last week's Paris conference ECA's Averell Harriman put the issue thus: "...Success [of the ECA program] would be impossible in a system made up of small, autarchic, uneconomic national trading units, each one dedicated to self-defeating self-sufficiency, each one standing off his neighbor with ingeniously stultifying restrictions...
Died. Fernando de los Rios Urruti, 69, Socialist cabinet member and a founder of the Second Spanish Republic (1931-39); after long illness; in Manhattan. Following the bloodless overthrow of King Alfonso XIII (April 1931), De los Rios, as Minister of Justice, started a reform program (to break up the aristocracy's large land holdings) and tried unsuccessfully to separate church and state. As Ambassador to the U.S. (1936-39), he fought for U.S. aid to Republican Spain, went into exile when Franco won the Civil...
...program of regional counseling for graduating job-hunters has been initiated by the Placement Office...
...Business School, in accepting Rockefeller's pledge said yesterday that he welcomed the opportunity "to express our deep appreciation to Mr. Rockefeller, not only for his generous offer of financial assistance but also for his expression of confidence in the School. His approval of the School's program coming as it did after a thorough study, gives the faculty and me real encouragement...