Word: programing
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...earmark $1 billion of EGA funds for mandatory spending on U.S. crops; they also beat down the Irish amendment (see below). The economy bloc did succeed in cutting $250 million from the Administration's proposed EGA appropriation, and pruned $20 million from the President's Point Four program. The foreign-aid bill as it finally passed the House totaled $3.1 billion: EGA, $2.85 billion; Korean aid, $100 million; China and contiguous areas, $100 million; Arab refugee relief in Palestine, $27.4 million; Point Four, $25 million. Next stop: the Senate...
...Months. The defense of Europe from Russia requires all three of the following: 1) a Germany that can defend itself; 2) a France that will defend itself; 3) an integrated fast-moving arms program backed...
...walled-off truce, but even this will be impossible, he points out, unless "the military strength of the Western nations [is maintained] at a level so great that Russia will not be willing to attack us ... I do not believe we can afford to refrain from accelerating our arms program beyond the present year. Even a delay of this length of time may be unwise...
Last week, in his neat, green-walled office at Oakland, Calif., Warren announced a fiveyear, $200 million expansion program. Safeway will build 1,000 big new stores costing $200,000 apiece to replace some of its smaller, old-fashioned groceries. To keep the cash outlay for the expansion low, Safeway intends to sell the new stores as rapidly as they are built, to private investors, colleges and insurance companies, then lease them back. Safeway has used this sell-and-lease-back system on all its 2,166 stores, thus has comparatively little cash tied up in real estate...
...thumping away at home on a set of drums. His biggest current worry: a strike in 139 Safeway stores, where the A.F.L. Retail Grocery Clerks Union wants store managers to join up. The strike has already cost the company about $4,000,000. But Warren hopes his expansion program will make this up-and then some. By 1955, when the program is completed, Warren expects that Safeway will have doubled its present business...