Word: programming
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...higher-yielding hybrid plants. But even his friends have begun to wonder whether he may have hindered rather than helped his announced aims. He justly carps at Capitol Hill's farm-vote-minded refusal to grant him all the support-shrinking powers he has asked for ("Our recommended program has never been given a real try"), but he has not always used the powers that he has to limit price supports, e.g., he voluntarily provided generous Government price support for millions of bushels of corn raised outside his acreage-restriction programs. And he has muddied debate by underwriting such...
...been that he talks as if he were the master of the problem, when actually he has been the slave of it." But whatever marks Benson deserves for his six-year effort, it is inescapably obvious that he is correct in his blunt demands for a new farm program to replace the depression-vintage, price-support apparatus, which operates like the unstoppable sorcerer's apprentice's broom-to make worse the problem it was designed to cure...
Welfare. The Eisenhower legislative program has eliminated all new social welfare legislation, water and reclamation project starts...
Form Subsidies. These remain the Administration's biggest headache (see Agriculture), but the budget envisions a $600 million saving in nonrecurring expenses for the acreage reserve section of the soil bank program (which was not extended by the last Congress), as much as $179 million on rural electrification, and a big chunk of the $250 million being spent for agricultural conservation. Moreover, the Agriculture department's surplus estimates are based not on the balmy-weather bumper crops of 1958 but on the ornery-weather average of other years...
...pell-mell herding of millions into communes was threatening to produce a resistance that might cause an even less ambitious program to founder. So Mao and his colleagues were compelled to slow up. But they have yet found no other way to achieve their headlong ambitions...