Word: programing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...they had predicted and promised, Republicans gave Harry Truman's massive special session program a quick brush-off. To the surprise of no one, they refused to consider price control or rationing as inflation remedies, gleefully repeated the President's observation of ten months ago that "these are marks of a police state." Their answer to a request for an excess profits tax was a brusque no. Despite Candidate Tom Dewey's personal intervention, they refused to liberalize the provisions of the Displaced Persons bill. The one unarguable gain of the week was approval...
Whatever had caused the blast, its effects, were calculable-and immense. Laurence Wilkinson, U.S. Military Government Economics Director, said: "The. loss of the plant will require an entire recalculation of the industrial program for Western Germany...
Berkshire Festivail Concert (Tues. 9:30 p.m., ABC). Final Berkshire broadcast, with Koussevitzky and an all-Tchaikovsky program...
...midyear report last week, the President's Council of Economic Advisers hailed the prospect of bumper crops as the one strong force which "should be of signal aid in checking of inflation." But was it? Thanks to the farm bloc and the Government crop-support program, the answer seemed likely to be no, at least for months to come...
...Price. The Department of Agriculture is already tangled up in the Alice-in-Wonderland economics of the support program in another farm product: after spending $40 million to support potato prices last year, the department asked farmers not to increase their potato acreage this year. But farmers increased production with better fertilizers, insecticides, irrigation. They felt sure the high support prices would go even higher. By last week the Government had already paid out $17 million for surplus potatoes-and the bulk of the crop is yet to come...