Word: programing
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...October 5, the six Scientific Advisory Committees, appointed by Major General Lewis B. Hershey to work with Selective Service, made their report. Since December, 1948, they had been considering recommendations made by General Hershey relating to a long-range manpower program. "With certain minor modifications," the Committee said, "we have unanimously reaffirmed these recommendations...
Opposed completely to this, President Conant has recommended Universal Military Service. He has asked that all men be drafted at the age of 18, and spend two years in the Armed Services. There would be no deferments; even 4-F's would have to serve in some capacity. This program would take effect after all draftable 16 to 26 year olds had been taken into service...
This plan differs from Universal Military Training, the Administration's program now being discussed in Congress, in several ways. First, U.M.T. would not be controlled by the Military alone; there would be civilians in its administration, and training would not be the same as that in the usual basic training course. After completing a basic U.M.T. course, men would go into the Army...
President Conant, President Wriston of Brown, and others, however, have said they think that some sort of program would just have to be worked out to aid colleges under U.M.S. Wriston says that he considers U.M.S. as only in the theory stage--"the details will have to come later...
Apart from these political objections, there were questions on the very economics of Schuman's plan. In England, and in the French socialist party itself, economists complained that the program might become, in time, merely a super cartel, one that could practically make its own laws. Others pointed out that the continent has seldom been without its earls in the modern past; this group feels that an organized monopoly might be better than the disorganized system that is now in existence...