Word: programing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Symphony (Sat. 6:30 p.m., NBC). Toscanini and an all-Mozart program...
Salesman Luckman was heartened by the response to his advertising. Some 1,500 letters a day poured into his Washington headquarters. At first they were evenly divided for & against the program; by last week they had switched to 90% in favor. He noted an even more significant point: the average weight of butchered hogs had dropped from 276 lbs. to 248 lbs.* His next major target was the meat packers. One possibility: asking packers to slap an embargo on overstuffed hogs and cattle (for an estimated saving of 60 million bushels of grain a year...
...resolution before it came to a vote. He remembered that many a Democrat had voted for Republican-sponsored measures, among them the Taft-Hartley labor law. He reminded his fellow Democrats that, when Congress reconvenes, the President hopes to get bipartisan support for his aid-Europe and hold-prices program...
What Incentives? In short, Cripps's program offers to British workers no immediate prospect but more sweat, and to British housewives only more tears of frustration over shortages. If Cripps could dangle before British workers no carrot in the form of more food and consumer goods, what incentives would they have to greater effort? Cripps last month said: "It has never yet been worked out how far a donkey will walk after a carrot permanently held beyond its reach, but there must be a limit to that form of stimulation." Cripps believes in a higher incentive "[We can succeed...
...Gallegos (TIME, Sept. 29), Caldera last week picked the Caracas bull ring for the opening speech of his campaign. After the cheers had rolled away, he outlined his party's "Social Christianity" program. "The rich should be less rich, the poor less poor," he said. He asked more rights for labor. Pumping away with his right arm, he attacked the Marxism of Acción Democrática, called for "social peace" to replace the class struggle. Caldera, whose party has church support (it accuses Acción of being anti-Catholic), plumped for a concordat that would abolish...