Word: programing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...committee's bill did not commit Congress to carry out the full four-year, 70-group program. It was simply spending the extra $822 million now to give the Air Force a flying start toward full modernization, to breathe fresh life into the emaciated aircraft industry and keep it healthy in case of need. If the international situation eased, the program could always be cut back. Congress preferred to be on the safe side...
Tall, jovial Howard Bruce was director of matériel for the Army Service Forces in 1944-45, was awarded the Distinguished Service Medal for his work in "developing and managing the greatest military procurement program in history." He was a Democratic national committeeman from Maryland for 14 years, lives with his wife in Elkridge, a Baltimore suburb...
...party and by telling the Administration what it could get through the Senate, he became the real expediter of the bipartisan foreign policy. He has been a sharp critic of the Administration's vacillating China policy, has continually pressed for the formulation of a long-range, overall foreign program...
Stalking into a joint session of both houses, he raked into the hides of "certain obstructionists" who had stampeded his program. They had ignored his plan to increase the terms of state officials from two to four years and his proposed constitutional amendment to reorganize the state's 100-odd commissions, boards and bureaus under tight executive control...
...amendment I have to submit to the people is one to raise your salaries ... I am going to do the only thing that is left for me to do and that is to appeal to the people." He would start immediately, he warned, collecting petitions to place his reorganization program on the ballot next November...