Word: programing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...drop to their natural level, thereby pleasing the consumers. The Government would pay the difference to the farmer, giving him higher subsidies than he now got, thereby tickling the farmer too. And yet all this probably wouldn't cost the taxpayer any more than the present farm program because the Department of Agriculture would so skillfully estimate crop needs and so carefully rig subsidy prices that the nation's 4,801,000 farmers, bribed or bridled into obeying, would grow only the amount" needed (that is, if nature was also cooperative...
Tired Sam Rayburn gave up and waited for a vote. The House buried Charley Brannan's trial-run plan, 222 to 152. Then, with 79 Democrats deserting the Administration, it voted to continue the existing farm parity program for another year...
First, should the federal Government provide money to improve education in states not rich enough to maintain good public schools? Could this be done without threatening the independence of the public schools? Harry Truman answered yes to both questions and incorporated the program in his Fair Deal. The U.S. Senate agreed when it passed its aid-to-education bill. But if such aid became a permanent policy of Government, would the nation's schools ultimately and inevitably fall into the hands of federal control? Should parochial and private schools which teach Christianity be excluded from federal aid and left...
Frank Murphy was mayor of Detroit during the depression, when some 50,000 Detroit families were virtually pauperized. He opened closed auto plants as dormitories, handed out almost $30 million in relief, saving enough on the operating costs of his administration to pay for the program...
...Prefer Death." The Military Assistance Program (M.A.P.) faced a far harder fight and a closer vote than the North Atlantic Treaty (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS). Opponents of the arms plan say that it will cost too much, and that it might provoke Soviet Russia to attack. The plan's advocates reply that a Communist victory in Europe would be far more expensive for the U.S., and that Soviet Russia is provoked to aggressive acts by the weakness, not by the strength, of the non-Communist world...