Word: programing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Said Green: "Our defense at home & abroad is not in arms alone, but in every means that builds for freedom and human welfare . . . The Congress has voted a European Recovery Program because it believes that the free nations of the world can grow in strength and unity . . . Our task is to put the world on its feet, and not on our back . . ." The promise was to be repeated, in more solemn tones, by Herbert Hoover the next night...
...Wreckers. As aging legislators catnapped and clerks clogged the rear of the chamber, it became apparent that an adequate ECA appropriation and a strong draft law were essential. So were a farm program and some kind of a housing bill...
...conferees had agreed on a farm program. Prices would be supported at the present 90% of parity for one year under the House's plan; then the Senate's long-range plan providing for flexible price-support levels would go into effect. As the hot morning sun streamed through Capitol windows, the House adjourned, subject to recall by its leaders. At 7:15 a.m. the Senate followed suit. It had been in continuous session for 44 hours and 15 minutes, the second longest in history...
President Truman's domestic program got short shrift. Congress refused to act on requests...
...Another notable decision of the week: the reluctant French National Assembly voted, 297 to 289, to join (with reservations) the U.S., Britain and the Benelux countries in the Six-Power London program for Germany...