Word: programing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...past. It was founded as a crusading party, champions of free farmers and free labor against slaveholders and slavery. Until 1908, labor had been traditionally Republican. The A.F.L.'s Samuel Gompers was a frequent visitor to the White House when McKinley and Theodore Roosevelt occupied it. The McKinley program of prosperity and "the full dinner pail" appealed to farmers and workers as well as employers...
...Daily Express' irrepressible "Beachcomber" did what he could to explain the government's new multicolored gasoline program. "Considerable confusion," he wrote, "is being caused by the new green petrol which changes to yellow when mixed with the blue dual-purpose petrol. It is difficult to analyze the mixture on the spot and the position is complicated by the similarity between this petrol in its yellow stage and the red petrol which becomes yellow when mixed with the new grey petrol which must be mixed with brown petrol for pleasure trips of more than one-seventh of a mile...
Meanwhile in Washington, U.S. officials studied a report which recommended what the Communists feared most. Former Senator D. Worth Clark had gone to China as investigator for the Senate Appropriations Committee. After a hardworking month of travel and talk with Chinese on all levels, he came back with a program based on these points: "Immediate and extensive" direct military aid, combat advisory aid, financial aid for military operations, financial aid to stabilize the currency, and strict U.S. supervision of the distribution of U.S. money and supplies. Clark's conclusions: "Piecemeal aid will no longer save failing China from Communism...
During his eight years in power, Muñoz has built the world's largest tax-financed project of individual houses (TIME, Aug. 23), started an $11 million hospital program, raised the percentage of the island's children in school from 49 to 58. But his chief tool for improvement is the Puerto Rico Industrial Development Co. Under the driving management of 38-year-old, Barcelona-born Teodoro ("Teddy") Moscoso Jr., PRIDC is plugging the island's advantages in openhanded tax concessions, cheap (as low as 15?-an-hour minimum) labor, and plentiful, government-owned electric power...
Labor on the Move. Muñoz hopes that PRIDC's program will make some 300,000 new industrial jobs by 1960. He also hopes to double the number of Puerto Ricans (5,000 in 1948) who go to the U.S. as migratory farm workers. Even that will not eliminate Puerto Rico's chronic labor surplus. For that, Muñoz has only one remedy: orderly but large-scale emigration. One movement he wants to discourage at all costs is the sort of undirected emigration that last year added 28,000 unwanted Puerto Ricans to the slums...