Word: programing
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...sponsor it. The Meadors Hotel saved 20 rooms, a grocery ordered 100 Ibs. of frankfurters, the Coca-Cola Co. dozens of cases of pop. A truckload of hay was deposited on the circus grounds to feed the elephants. F. Bam Morrison sold $250 worth of advertising for the circus program; while he was working at it, the hotel donated his room, the Wide-A-Wake Cafe his board. For treating him, two doctors got free passes to the show. Then Morrison left town, and Bohn's United Circus never showed. But Wetumka decided to have a celebration, anyway...
...Thirteenth Air Force, and from Tokyo came Brigadier General Alonzo P. Fox, Deputy Chief of Staff for the U.S. Far East Command; they would make a more detailed survey, expedite U.S. aid, set up a liaison staff. Coordination would probably include a Nationalist armed forces training program under U.S. officers...
...antitank weapons and radar equipment. The decision to spend more on defense did not cheer Britons, who-after bitter years of austerity-have just begun to enjoy slightly better living. Yet even the proposed effort seemed to some far from adequate. The British memorandum stated carefully that the new program was designed not to upset economic recovery, or put Britain on a war footing. London's Economist found no assurance "that what is planned will be enough...
...city and county hospitals generally have been hard enough put to it to provide enough beds for the chronically ill; they have spent little effort fitting those patients for useful, self-sufficient life. Last week, reporting on a year's trial program of rehabilitation, New York City's Commissioner of Hospitals, Dr. Marcus D. Kogel, showed how much difference a change of emphasis could make...
Perhaps the most important Nationalist measure on Formosa is land reform, begun by General Chen Cheng, Wu's able, shrewd predecessor as governor and now Prime Minister in the Nationalist government. Wu, good friend of General Chen, has vigorously enforced his land-reform program, which provides that farmers are to pay rents no higher than 37.5% of their crop (in the past, rents ran as high as 75%). The land reform has been partly financed by EGA and carried out with the help of a remarkable, little-known organization composed of U.S. and Chinese technicians called the Joint Commission...