Word: programing
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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Senator Tom Connolly, head of the Foreign Relations Committee, has promised to get the Administration's Point Four program out on the Senate floor soon. His group passed the bill last week by an 11 to 0 vote, and restored the original 45 million dollar appropriation from which the House had snipped 20 millions...
Even the full appropriation is not too much for this measure, one of the most important parts of President Truman's foreign program. He announced the plan in his inauguration address last January, when he requested aid and technical assistance for backward countries throughout the world. At that time several United Nations groups began preparing methods of distributing any funds that they might get. After the State Department asked for such plans, the U.N. last spring appointed a special commission to investigate further what was needed and where. During the year expectant financially-troubled countries applied to us for technical...
...Kennedy, who also raised 6,500,000 pounds of potatoes last year, admitted that he had made money from the potato support program. But he did not like that program either. "A lot of these crops," said he, "aren't grown for the market at all, but just for the support price. I believe in a free economy, and political control is not a free economy at all. The present setup is a vote-catching proposition and nothing else. Support prices at 90% of parity are sure politics...
Farmer Kennedy has gone along with Iowa's other potato farmers, who had voted to reduce their acreage and join 1950's support program. But this week he and his neighbors will meet again and he hoped they would reverse themselves and vote to stay out of the program. In any case he does not intend to reduce his acreage of unsupported onions, in spite of his loss...
...industry leaders decided that a program of self-regulation was needed, formed a subcommittee of the National Association of Securities Dealers to do the job. Last week, the N.A.S.D. started work on a mutual fund policing code, backed up with the power to levy fines and to suspend or revoke N.A.S.D. membership...