Word: programing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...were willing to pay a higher price, the average user could not help but conclude that the chances of getting more steel were more than ever against him. Steel production last week reached 98.5% of capacity, a new peacetime high. But the industry's voluntary allocations program, Secretary of Commerce Charles Sawyer reported, was "grinding to a halt." The reason, said Sawyer, was that Congress failed to extend the allocations law beyond its March 1 deadline, leaving hardly enough time for all the steps involved in making new allocations ("careful study" of every application, followed by public hearings, followed...
...pipe mills and mine machinery makers to operate at capacity. The committee had turned him down. Last week Davidson accused the committee of "supplying steel for nonessential and even frivolous purposes ... I can draw no conclusion . . . other than that the steel industry has decided to jettison the voluntary allocations program...
...Truman's Program...
...institutions, and what he has stood for ever since he entered the White House, are measures of greater importance to the prosperity of the nation than efficiency for efficiency's sake. In January, 1946, the President asked Congress for minimum wage and full employment legislation, for an adequate housing program, and for a Fair Employment Practices Act. His subsequent domestic policies--and his 62 vetoes--have followed in the same direction. Mr. Truman has pushed for a liberal displaced persons bill, for strong civil rights legislation, for social security expansion, and for adequate curbs on inflation. Governor Dewey has said...
...factors have prevented the realization of President Truman's domestic program: his own administrative weaknesses and the antipathy of the Republican-controlled 80th Congress. But because this program seems to be more beneficial to the nation than does the program of Governor Dewey and his party, the CRIMSON urges the election of President Truman...