Word: programing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...always the pacemaker in industrial settlements. Despite the handicap of a two-year contract, a cut in steel prices, and a no-strike clause, the steelworkers' Phil Murray was still bargaining for all he was worth. Last week he announced that negotiations had taken a new tack. A program of insurance, hospitalization and retirement benefits was under discussion. It would cost the steel companies the equivalent of a 9.6?-an-hour pay increase...
...Glen Taylor of Idaho voted against it. Said Cain: "We're trying to do too much-too fast." Cried Taylor, running mate to Henry Wallace on the third party ticket: "When Wallace is elected President, we can reach an agreement with Russia and call off this whole armaments program...
...Senate completed the victory of the Air Force last week. By an overwhelming 74-to-2 vote, it passed a $3,198,000,000 appropriation to get the 70-group Air Force program started. Coupled with the House's recent 343-to-3 endorsement of a similar bill, the Senate's action was conclusive proof that Congress considered air power the nation's first line of defense...
...action, Congress rejected the recommendations of Defense Secretary James Forrestal, who had suggested a 66-group Air Force and a "balanced" military establishment; e.g., more ground troops to support overseas air bases. Forrestal never made too good a case. Air Secretary Stuart Symington, pleading for the 70-group program, had made his. It was the first time in eight years on the tricky playing fields of Washington that Forrestal had lost the ball on a fumble...
Whatever the reasons, private industry had not met the nation's requirements in housing. But there was at least a partial solution in a program on which Harry Truman and Bob Taft could agree. It was the Taft-Ellender-Wagner bill, calling for U.S.-aided slum clearance, federal guarantees in the next year of up to $1.6 billion on private mortgage loans, and construction of 15 million dwellings in the next decade (500,000 in five years under federal public housing). The Senate had passed the bill. At week's end it was bottled up in Representative Jesse...