Word: program
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...controls are currently possible; and 4) all controllable nuclear weapons tests beneath the surface of the earth. To get around disagreements on how to measure underground blasts, the U.S. proposed to check all those above a 4.75 rating- on the standard seismographic "earthquake scale." The U.S. also proposed a program of joint research to improve the detection of small bombs underground, and eventually bring all tests under strict international control...
...Minute. The farm message had not been reshaped, but it had been restyled to make it softer. The President made only two specific recommendations: 1) expansion of the long-term soil bank "conservation reserve" to 60 million acres from the present 28 million, and 2) a new wheat program that would combine repeal of all wheat production controls with a lower support price, based on market prices rather than on the outdated "parity" formula. A new wheat program was "imperatively needed," said Ike-the present program is costing the Federal Government $1,000 a minute, $1.5 million...
...President did not insist on his own wheat program. He would, he said, "approve any constructive solution that the Congress wishes to develop," whether leading to "greater freedom or more regimentation," and whether based on market prices or parity-a wide departure from Secretary Benson's old down-with-controls, parity-must-go war cries...
...ambitious industrial development program...
...military program. b) No drastic changes...