Word: programing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week the President also: ¶Parried an invitation to the International Labor Organization meeting in San Francisco next June and jokingly remarked that he expected to have a very busy program at that time (party convention time...
...entered the White House. The President began by remarking that he had no special announcements to make; he threw himself open for questions. Up popped the Buffalo Evening News's white-haired Jim Wright. "Mr. President," he said, "I have been trying to reason out this food conservation program at breakfast this morning without an egg. Are you going to have the chickens go without grain on the seventh day of the week...
...last week which began with "Well, what should we do?" got lost in guesses and by-Gods. One of the most dubious guesses was the Administration's guess that it might be able to control prices by persuading people to save food, while it went ahead with its program of buying grain to feed Europe. Those were two birds flying in different directions which could not be brought down with the same stone...
...bumper wheat crop had knocked the price off a little, but when reports of a bad corn crop came in, the wheat price soared again. The day the Paris conferees announced Europe's needs, it climbed to $2.66. Two weeks after Harry Truman announced the food-saving program, the price hit a high...
Wheat: meeting export goals will depend on favorable weather, a conservation program. High production is no undue drain on fertility, but plowing up grazing lands for more acreage seriously increases the dangers of soil erosion...