Word: programming
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Sent a sharp, unprecedented (for him) message to Congress demanding "urgent consideration and action" on three items that he had requested last January: an increase of 1? a gallon in the federal gasoline tax to keep the pay-as-you-go highway program going, increased mortgage-insurance money for the Federal Housing Administration, a new bill to correct the dramatic failure of the support and control program for wheat...
...lawmaking initiative has migrated from the Capitol to the White House. The idea of an Administration legislative program "is now so familiar that it is hard to realize how recent it is in our national history, and how contrary in many respects to the traditional concepts of the American political system...
...Thanks a million") Cartwright was overthrown by George Roy Clough, a terrible-tempered businessman (radio and TV), who promised to maintain the city in a state of honest sin-to let the gambling and prostitution go merrily unchecked, but to cut out the protection payoffs. Clough's program worked well enough to win him re-election in 1957, but then things began to go sour...
From the "hungry i" (The Kingston Trio; Capitol LP). One of the most gifted trios in years offers an artfully mixed bag of selections from a San Francisco nightclub program. Included are a French lullaby, a calypso number, a Zulu hunting chant and a stunningly arranged version of They Call the Wind Maria. The group has antic imagination and enough craft to strike sparks from as shopworn a number as When the Saints Go Marching...
Republic Steel Corp., the nation's third largest steelmaker, announced that it will spend $375 million on a major improvement program over the next four years. The first project will be a $45 million hot strip mill, with a capacity for 145,000 tons per month, to be added at Republic's Warren, Ohio plant. To dispel any doubts about overcapacity, Republic's Chairman Charles M. White told stockholders that he foresees the possibility of total steel industry output in 1960 exceeding 1955's record of 117,036,085 tons. Republic, which has boosted...