Word: programing
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...Congress neared the end of the long push on the nation's spending program for fiscal 1951, a level Southern voice echoed through the House's chamber. It was an echo which would haunt every home, farm and business in the nation. Lean,, black-browed Congressman George Mahon of Colorado City, Texas, was telling his colleagues last week that they had only begun to spend the people's money...
...billion in the omnibus appropriations bill, had to have another $11.6 billion immediately for more planes, ships and men, said Congressman Mahon. The House Appropriations Committee, for which he spoke, had already approved the outlay. In addition, the committee had approved another $4 billion for the Mutual Defense Assistance Program to Europe, plus other million-dollar odds & ends for such things as the Voice of America ($77 million). The whole bill in prospect totaled another $16.7 billion...
Other cuts were made where it would hurt Congressmen least: EGA, cut from $2.6 billion to $2.4 billion; the $12.5 million International Children's Fund, eliminated entirely; $26.9 million for the President's Point Four program, cut to $15 million-but later restored by a House vote after Harry Truman warned, "I can conceive of no more tragic blunder than to throw away this opportunity of doing so much to strengthen the cause of freedom at such little cost...
With the final approval of the House and the Senate, the omnibus bill goes to Harry Truman, who will have the choice of gagging over details and signing, or vetoing and jeopardizing the whole program. Altogether, the nation faced a bill for 1951 of close to $69 billion...
...Club is planning a brochure to be sent to members and other alumni interested in the program, which will help graduates do a "sensible and effective job in talking with a schoolboy about Harvard...