Word: programing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...when to cajole, when to burst into anger, when to be imperious, when to recite statistics, when to tell a droll story. The Agricultural Adjustment Act was the result of Ed O'Neal's ideas. He "nominated" Henry Wallace for Secretary of Agriculture, backed his crop-control program ("Plow the little pigs under"), persistently pushed parity payments onward & upward...
Pollitt then laid out the party tactics. By encouraging Britain's workers to demand higher wages and a bigger slice from British production, Communists would try to upset Cripps's carefully calculated program for economic recovery. "In our anxiety to drive for increased production," said Pollitt, "we have sometimes done far too little in the fight for wages and conditions. . . . No further cuts . . . must be tolerated and steps [must be] taken to secure immediate wage advances to meet the rising costs of living...
Like the rest of the world, Canada was anxious to see what the U.S.'s European Recovery Program (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS) would look like when Congress got through with it. As laid out by President Truman, it called for the spending of $2,615 million by the U.S. in other Western Hemisphere countries in the 15 months ending June 30, 1949. Canadians hoped, with good reason, that it would mean enough U.S. dollars to solve the Dominion's foreign exchange troubles...
...lead the Columbia Chorale and Symphony in Beethoven's Mass in C. Two days-and eight hours of rehearsals-later, he will conduct his Collegiate Chorale at Carnegie Hall in Bach's three-hour-long Christmas Oratorio; next night, Christmas carols for CBS's annual Christmas program. And on top of all that, he has a Christmas symphony concert at the Juilliard School of Music, where he is director of choral conducting -in his spare time...
...present, Clipson is trying to get into large-scale production while fighting off eager customers. Britons hope that his super-plaster, which permits builders to cut all sorts of corners, will boost the government's lagging housing program. In due course, non-Britons may stand in line for exports or patent licenses...