Word: planned
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Tucker explained that the Kremlin is in the process of working out a plan to reorganize the educational system. The plan is outlined in a law passed last December, entitled "On the Strength of the Connection of School and Life in the USSR." Tucker said that the word "life" refers to the life of material production...
Fulbright was vexed at the President, because White House influence had helped kill off Fulbright's cherished plan for a five-year Foreign Aid Development Loan Fund, financed by back-door borrowing from the U.S. Treasury (TIME, July 13). Ike was vexed at the Senate, because it had chopped heavily into military assistance funds in cutting his $3.9 billion request for foreign aid authorization down to $3.5 billion. The Senate, he told his press conference, was "not taking into account the tremendous responsibilities of the U.S.," and he hinted that he might call a special session if military...
...plan assumes that the U.S. will suffer the first blow in any major nuclear war. It counts on the expectation that the nation will not only survive the first onslaught but will have the military strength to launch a massive counter-strike and the morale to get the nation back on its feet. Yet, despite the urgent recommendations of the Gaither report, the Rockefeller defense report (TIME, Jan. 13, 1958) and most civil-defense experts, not a single city or state in the nation has a realistic nuclear-bomb shelter system-a system that on a national scale could save...
...Coogan-Huller travel service flourished, added a "travel now-pay later" system for men who looked like good credit risks, experimented with a "group-payment plan" when seven G.I.s promised $185 to get a buddy to Korea. In six months, the red-faced Army admitted last week, Coogan-Huller cleared $1,750 from ten soldiers, in all shipped at least 18 to chosen places abroad, had four customers ready to travel when the word-of-mouth ad campaign reached one ear too many...
...world steel is now held by the Soviet Union, which produces as much steel as Britain, West Germany and Italy combined. Last year's production of 60 million tons was double that of 1950, or 70% of the U.S. total. The Russians are working feverishly to catch up, plan to equal U.S. production by 1972. Lumped together with China and the satellites, Russia's steel industry will gradually become a formidable challenge to the West, though for many years it will be devoted mainly to supplying Russia's own appetite for steel...