Word: programing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...result [of the Oregon program] in 25 years will be colossal...
Everyone hoped that one of the principal results of the armed services merger would be a neat, well-rounded military program. Congress intended it to be that way; when it wrote the merger act, it specifically directed the new Military Establishment to produce such a program. Congress, so most people thought, would merely take the program and fit it into budgetary limits. Everything was going to be in apple-pie order...
Horse-trading. The fact that the program has turned out to be far from neat and entirely different has left some citizens nonplussed. But the explanation is fairly simple. Actually, Congress never had any intention of letting the Military Establishment tell it what to do. Like any other national program, this one, in the end, was going to be put together by the usual method of horse-trading, wrangling and compromise...
Confusion. Whatever the arguments, by last week this method had produced little but confusion on the two major phases of the program-airpower and manpower. Defense Secretary James V. Forrestal had first asked Congress for a "balanced military force" built around a 55-group air force. Then Congress began talking of a 70-group air force, and the House passed a bill appropriating the money to get it going. Last week Secretary Forrestal, hastily inventing a pudding during the meat course, recommended a 66-group program. To his original 55 groups he would add one fighter group and ten heavy...
...membership of the organization is such as to discourage them from joining and keep them in the background when they come in. AVC is a supporter of action through the U.N., a strong Marhall Plan supporter, and domestically, a backer of such measures as the Taft-Eilender-Wagner housing program and the recent subsistence pay raise for vets. On the negative side, they have opposed a Federal bonus and the Taft-Hartley labor bill...