Word: planned
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...inaugural address in January President Truman outlined a four point legislative program for passage by the 81st Congress. The last point called for technical and financial aid to underdeveloped countries. This was to be separate from any economic or military help to Marshall Plan--or later, Atlantic Pact--nations...
...Plan. While they dickered for a site, Luckman's agents got options on temporary office space, a list of 4,000 houses and 500 apartments for the 1,300 employees to be moved, made reservations in 40 hotels to shelter the vanguard. To fill employees in on New York, Lever's prepared an 80-page guidebook on how and why the move was being made and crammed with shopping tips, subway maps, bus routes and commutation times and fares from the suburbs. Even the printing of this book went on in cloak & dagger fashion. Up until press time...
...three plan to call their new magazine either "The Moon," or "The Lyre and Lute." "It will cost about 15 cents and resemble Punch a great deal," said Wiggin last night. "We aim to get away from the esoteric and the arty," he summarized...
Leader of the fight for a flexible price-support system for two years, Aiken had succeeded in wooing the Senate to his side, but ran into unexpected opposition from the House, which stubbornly held out for a fixed-parity support. Aiken's plan would allow a flexible parity range from 60 to 90 percent of the base period, depending on current agricultural conditions but still securing a parity principle in the long run. Meanwhile, Secretary of Agriculture Charles F. Brannan introduced a complex farm program so confusing that the Republicans saw their chance to push a plan of their...
...scrapped. This had appeared at first to be a House victory, but now there is some question as to which side will come out on top. The aim of a parity program is to give farmers a stable purchasing power, based on some former period of prosperity. The House plan would determine such a period and then maintain it as the price base; the Senate, on the other hand, favors more flexibility in the computing of support prices. Badly split, the Democratic ranks are fighting to hold the states they won in 1948, while the G.O.P. is doing its best...