Word: programing
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...plots (about 15 acres), help the peasantry to buy and cultivate them. The political, financial, administrative and technical difficulties are staggering. For example, some localities suffer now from too much fragmentation of land ownership; in others, the land must first have irrigation, fertilizers, etc. The slowness of the government program led last fall and spring to peasant seizures of land, especially in southern Italy, where conditions are most depressing. Blood was shed, and the Communists shouted. To forestall similar incidents, De Gasperi has launched a preliminary installment of his land reform...
...Canada last week signed a 350-word document reviving the wartime Hyde Park Agreement to create what amounts to a single rearmament program. As a first step toward coordinating defense production, Canada imposed curbs on consumer credit (e.g., one-third down payments on cars, 20% on other merchandise) similar to controls already in effect...
Margaret Sanger, 67, pioneer champion of birth control, winner of a $1,000 Lasker award for planned parenthood, suggested a Government program to sterilize "the feeble-minded and victims of transmissible, congenital diseases." Then she announced that she would turn over her award money to help "women, especially the women of Japan, to control and guide their own biological destiny...
...Line Shudder. Bob Doherty was impressed with Tech, but he was not a man to be easily satisfied. Over the next 14 years he made Tech hum. He raised $4,000,000 to begin the first building program the school had had in years. He boosted the endowment from $17 to $30 million, tripled the size of the library, upped the number of full-time students two-thirds. Instead of a mere 27 advanced degrees a year, Carnegie Tech was soon giving...
...meeting in Chicago of the American Society for Metals, Ryerson let go with a counterblast of his own: "For anyone to suggest that the steel industry should arbitrarily be required to increase its capacity by 20 to 30 million tons during the next two years ... is to suggest a program ... so unrealistic that it is sheer nonsense . . . Our industry is an early target of an obvious campaign that will lead to socialization of American industry ... a fight that will come to other industries unless...