Word: programing
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...Truman appointed Hoffman's deputy, William C. Foster, onetime machinery manufacturer who had been Under Secretary of Commerce under Averell Harriman. Hoffman had been disheartened by Congress' insistence that ECA's European currency funds should go for rearmament (although he heartily favored a separate military aid program). Nonetheless, he wrote the President, Bill Foster might well preside over "ECA's period of greatest usefulness...
...month ago of how much hardware (tanks, guns, etc.) that the U.S. must produce for itself and its allies beginning immediately. The estimates: 15,000 tanks, 25,000 pieces of artillery and 40,000 super-bazookas and recoilless rifles. This would be merely a part of a general program which would run between $35 billion and $40 billion annually for the next three years and then would taper off to a maintenance level of about $25 billion a year. But since then the Pentagon planners have been raising their goals almost every week; the talk in Washington last week...
...Last month the Government finally clamped a freeze on all its remaining surplus property, to screen it for possible use in the current rearmament program...
John Foster Dulles called the U.S. plan "the most important program" since U.N.'s founding. He added: "We are starting to move in the right direction. We're still not moving fast enough...
Last week his Parisian fans, overflowing onto the stage of the Theéátre des Champs Elysées, heard Virtuoso Segovia at his nimble-fingered best. Starting his program with a Bach fugue, he played transcriptions of works by Frescobaldi, Scarlatti, Haydn and Mozart, making his six-stringed instrument sound as brilliant as a harpsichord or as plaintive as a lute. When he concluded his program with music by Spanish Composers Albéniz and Granados, and the Italian, CastelnuovoTedesco, he was greeted with cries of "merci, merci" and "gracias," was shouted back for 15 curtain calls...