Word: programing
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...Congressional critics were quick to catch the change of temper; most Democrats regarded both Secretaries as albatrosses around the President's neck. Last week, for the first time since the Korean war, Johnson and Acheson marched up Capitol Hill together to argue for the $4 billion foreign-arms program. They would get the money, all right. But for more than three hours, behind closed doors, committeemen blistered the Administration's failure to prepare for Korea. This time Acheson was not the only one to draw the committee's anger. Johnson, who had long done his best...
South-West Africa's election (for whites only) had been held in defiance of the U.N., which insists that South-West Africa is still a mandated territory. There now seemed no political bar to a fanatic, explosive Nationalist program of full apartheid (racial separateness...
...Radford had a variety of sea and shore duty, doing what he could all the while to improve the technique of carrier flying. In the autumn of 1941 he was called back from a base command at Trinidad to take charge of the Navy's air training program, a job which got him a rear admiral's two stars. Radford took over the training program a week before Pearl Harbor. His problem was to combine mass production with high quality...
...began a program of rigorous preflight training in a handful of universities, with ground studies and physical conditioning. He set up a number of inland centers for primary training, most of them hundreds of miles from tidewater. Some of his airmen got their first carrier practice on the Great Lakes, on bizarre training carriers converted from paddle-wheel steamers. In two years he was turning out 20,000 superbly trained pilots annually...
Since all this is only a starter in the nation's five-year economic development program, Australia plans to ask the World Bank for an additional $150 million when the current loan is spent...