Word: programming
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Public opinion today substantially approves the second, third and fourth points of my 1938 defense program, and Congress this year is voting far more than $3,000,000,000 in necessary appropriations. Unfortunately large appropriations do not immediately buy security. This country will be in deadly peril until our defenses, some two years hence, will include an adequate air force and a highly trained field force armed with modern weapons. Incidentally, the provisions of the original Burke-Wadsworth Bill are approximately those suggested in my fifth point, and it is to be hoped that Congress will enact this measure...
...Declared that conscription should be enacted within two weeks, and warned that delay dragging into fall or winter might set back the U. S. defense program by a year. His unprepared statement, delivered at a press conference, surprised correspondents, who had previously got from him only a general approval of the principle of the Burke-Wadsworth Bill, now heard some Presidential scoffing at critics who had said that shortages of essential training equipment blocked immediate conscription. The President's main points: 400,000 new men are needed to bring existing units of the Regular Army and National Guard...
...Franklin Roosevelt's acceptance speech, he pointed a finger of reproach at the "one exception," the only man who had refused to help him in his program for national defense. Who was the man? Gossip sizzled. The President would not tell. Washington wisemen thought it must have been Alf Landon, who had reportedly turned down a Cabinet job when the President refused to commit himself on Term...
Signing the Investment Company Act and Investment Advisers Act which will put investment trusts and counselors under SEC supervision, Candidate Roosevelt called the bill to witness "this Administration's vigorous program . . . to protect the investor." Sure that "we have come a long way from the bleak days of 1929." the President voiced a pious hope: "It is a source of satisfaction that businessmen have at last come to recognize that it is this Administration's purpose to aid the honest businessman...
...Army has some 400 tanks, but the organization of the new Armored Corps kept most of them busy at Ft. Benning and Ft. Knox, far from the maneuvers. The same was true of planes: the Air Corps needed most of its planes for its training program. For reconnaissance, Blue and Black Army commanders had observation planes, but almost no attack planes, which could have played hob with troop movements, especially river crossings. The handful of pursuit and bombardment pilots detailed to the maneuvers spent most of their time dogfighting, testing a telephone warning system for tracing the course of invading...