Word: programing
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...strange unbalance in Washington, he had almost nothing to say about how the contraption should run. For most of what he bought in the grocery store, and much of his clothing, he paid twice-once in high prices over the counter, again in taxes to finance the farm-support program to keep the price up. From his taxes came the money for such subsidy payments as the $3,759,000 paid to Russell Giffen of Fresno, Calif, for his 1948 grain, cotton and flax; $426,000 to the Reeds of Fort Fairfield, Me., and $216,000 to Rudolph Blier...
...most farm economists and many farm legislators. To critics the Brannan proposals looked as dangerous as the malady they were supposed to cure. Nobody could make an honest prediction of what it would cost, including Charlie Brannan himself (he thought it might be no more than the present program); other guesses ranged as high as $9.5 billion a year...
Much of the purely technical material that was part of Economics 1 in the past will be dropped and taught instead in the Department's rejuvenated tutorial program. Smithies thinks this system will be superior because previously he and his colleagues have found that the purely technical material taught in elementary courses has to be re-provided later...
...million pigs began moving to market this spring, the seasonal glut sent the average price of pork dropping to $16 a hundredweight. Secretary of Agriculture Charles F. Brannan warned Congress that unless it gave the Commodity Credit Corp. an extra $2 billion for the overall price-propping program, he could not support the pork market. When Congress did nothing, Brannan's economists gloomily predicted that unsupported pork might fall as low as $10 a hundredweight...
...Wires. Five years ago, when many businessmen were preparing to cut their switches in expectation of a "reconversion" slump with mass unemployment, Lindseth took the bold course. He foresaw a boom which would need an ever-expanding supply of power, and backed his bet with a $90 million expansion program for his own company. Then Lindseth went out after business. By offering advice on factory sites, suppliers and markets, he helped lure 536 new plants (including $50 million in chemical plants alone) to the five-county area that C.E.I.'s national ads call "the best location in the nation...