Word: programming
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...these dollars, which are allocated to furnish the Spanish economy with raw materials, food, heavy and light industrial equipment and transport items-those goods that are most urgently needed by Spain. The held opinion in the Administration, in Congress, and in my country is that the Spanish-American program is one of the most efficiently run, ably planned, and carefully supervised programs carried out by the International Cooperation Administration...
...plans to fit political facts of life-such as Dwight Eisenhower's popularity, his veto weapon, and the appeal of his balanced-budget goal to the U.S.'s current conservative temper. Pennsylvania Democrat Joseph S. Clark, who sounded a call for a lot of bold new spending programs after the Democratic victory last November, stood up in the Senate and denounced the Johnson approach as an effort to "block that veto" by turning out "legislation which renounces or blurs or fuzzes or muddies the Democratic Party platform, policies and program. 'Block that veto' is a euphemism...
...decided that more austerity was needed to restore the pound's prestige. It cut down government spending, raised the bank rate to 7%, got banks to put a voluntary "freeze" on bank loans. Britain was also helped by the worldwide drop in prices of raw materials. Its austerity program worked, and by mid-1958 Britain again had more than $3 billion in gold and exchange in the till-and new self-confidence. It freed the economy from a tangle of regulations, lowered income and corporate taxes, made sterling convertible, and announced the end of import restrictions against most goods...
...Festival will take place in John Hancock Hall, Boston. The directors have stated that the program is as follows: July 10, Bob Gibson, "Off-beat" songs; July 23, Martha Schlamme, Israeli Music; August 6, Josh White, Blues...
...Gillette Company of Boston has contributed an undisclosed sum of money to the Program for Harvard College, it has been learned. The contribution will be used for the cost of one of the laboratories in the new chemistry building...