Word: programing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Overshadowing all other issues as Congress met after the Christmas holidays was the European Recovery Program, whose most effective champion was Senator...
...Signed the $6 billion appropriation for the foreign-aid program; the one-year extension of the reciprocal trade bill, with regret that it was not for the usual three-year period; the draft bill; appropriation bills carrying almost $10½ billion to bolster the Army, Navy and Air Force; the $573 million waterways and flood-control bill (TIME...
...would be a good idea, they said, for civilian doctors to get blood banks organized and join in the civil defense program. Light clothes are best to wear for an atomic bombing (Hiroshima victims proved that dark clothes increase the chances of fatal burns). If death does not come quickly, "the patient may become extremely emaciated." After that he may die, but "emaciation" sounds more cheerful than "atomic death...
...like Malan himself, belonged to the fanatically nationalist Ossewa Brandwag (Ox-Wagon Sentinel) and Broederbond organizations, whose members had been banned from state employment during the war by Prime Minister Smuts for pro-Hitler sympathies. Malan's government promptly canceled the ban as well as the Smuts-sponsored program for training Negro labor...
Impressed, tight-fisted John Taber's committee approved the biggest appropriation yet for Hargrave's stockpilers: $300 million for emergency use, $300 million for long-term contracting. Though Congress approved, Hargrave still had $2.5 billion to go if the five-year program was to be completed on schedule...