Word: programing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...harvesting of the bumper California raisin grape crop, which just ended, was good news last week for pigs, but bad news for taxpayers. The pigs will get most of the surplus raisins for fodder, and the taxpayers will get a bill for about $5,000,000. This giveaway program, just like the expensive program in potatoes and flaxseed, is the result of Congress' love for price supports...
...movie empire which Britain's Cinemogul J. Arthur Rank put together in 14 years was in the midst of its own austerity program. Up for sale this week at public auction will go his studios at Shepherd's Bush and Islington. Rank, who could use the money, hopes that they will be knocked down for not less than ?250,000, possibly to BBC's television division. (The studios are too antiquated to interest U.S. moviemakers in England.) Of the four studios which will be left to Rank, two are shut tight and two are operating at only...
...that Hitler had temporarily eliminated the Jews in Austria, but the Party realized that democracy was impossible in a nation with a race minority. While the CRIMSON realizes that the League is a catch-all party, the editors feel that this and similar statements indicate that the leadership and program of the Party have clear Nazi inclinations and constitute far from a loyal opposition in the new government...
...grant of $10,000 for the project has been provided by the Merrill Foundation for Advancement of Financial Knowledge. This will pay for exploratory research and studies in the coming year, Dean Mason said, adding that a four or five year program is contemplated if the initial studies prove fruitful...
When the 81st Congress adjourned last week, its action on the Administration's domestic policies consisted mainly of nine and a half months of party splits, filibusters, and witchhunts. President Truman put before Congress a long-range program of social legislation, and the lawmakers responded by devoting much of their time to headline prosecutions instead of their more serious legislative duties...