Word: programing
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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Last year Benson went onto a new corn program that abolished all production controls on corn in return for a modest reduction in the support price. Benson hoped that the lower support price would lead to a smaller crop; instead, farmers increased their corn acreage by a whacking 15%, harvested the biggest, most glutting corn crop in U.S. history. And by last week's new estimates showed a slight increase in 1960 corn acreage rather than the decrease that Benson had fervently hoped for. Barring something about as probable as a midsummer frost in the Midwest, the U.S. faces...
...Another Program. Hardly anybody any longer puts any stock in Benson's assurances that success for his programs is just around the corner. As campaigning warms up, many a G.O.P. congressional candidate in the Midwest is expected to do what Iowa's Republican Congressman Ben Jensen has already done: repudiate Benson outright. Vice President Nixon is working on his own goodbye-Benson farm program, to be unwrapped soon after the G.O.P. nominating convention...
...working out his farm program, Nixon-or any other presidential hopeful-faces a formidable task. Appeals for a new farm program are as plentiful in Election Year 1960 as flies in a cow barn, but no politician in either party has come forward with a really convincing program for cleaning up the mess...
Slicing the bloated state payroll by 15%, Combs next sent to the general assembly a 16-point reform program put together by himself and Wyatt. Among the measures pushed through the assembly ("This," said one legislator, "has been the hardest-working, lightest-drinking session in Kentucky's history"): 1) a merit system of state employment; 2) a realistic conflict-of-interest law; 3) a fair-elections law, requiring voting machines throughout the state; 4) the first statewide cleanup of Kentucky's voting rolls; 5) an average $1,100 raise in teachers' salaries and a probe...
...Force. Major $160 million contract is for Samos, the Air Force's global surveillance satellite system. And $52 million will go for Midas, the infra-red detection system to report trails of heat from enemy missiles in flight, and $71 million for Discoverer, the space-probe program...