Word: programs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...eventually a socialist state." Illinois' sharp-nosed Leo Allen, who pigeonholed the housing bill in the days when he ran the Rules Committee in the 80th Congress, held out an even brighter prospect. By voting on this one question, the House could decide "whether the entire Truman program will succeed or be defeated...
...terms of manpower, Yugoslav industry is now producing more expensively than the same production would cost to import. The overall effort is based on a staggering program of self-sacrifice by the Yugoslav people. Like the Russian people, they were not consulted about the desirability of making the sacrifice. Many Yugoslavs resent it. Although some new factories, schools and offices have been built, what the average worker really sees ahead is a life of slavery for which he is not even beginning to receive compensation in the form of consumer goods...
...Britain's Labor Party went to the hustings in 1945 with an election program titled, "Let Us Face the Future." Hopeful Britons swept Clement Attlee and the Laborites in with a 195-seat majority in Parliament. Last week, as Britain prepared for another general election, agile Laborite publicity men were right on hand with a new manifesto. The title this time: "Let Us Win Through Together." One of the authors wryly admitted, "It's a little long, but we needed to say all that...
...manifesto, a twelve-page pamphlet, had a red & white cover and a red & white program inside. Doctrinaire Socialists were promised a little more nationalization: sugar, cement, cold storage facilities and water supply (about a third of Britain's water systems are still privately owned). But the emphasis was on welfare, not state ownership. The greater part of the manifesto talked pleasantly of full employment, child welfare, and the "full and free development of every individual person...
Hoping to make a molehill out of its $3.7 billion mountain of farm surpluses, the Commodity Credit Corp. last week started something like a giveaway program. It listed eleven Government-held agricultural products for sale to U.S. exporters at cut rates for resale abroad. Some of the bargains: ¶CJ 73 million Ibs. of dried eggs, originally bought at $1.30 a lb., now on sale...