Word: planning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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What was needed now, the President said, was to pump new life into the sagging economy with a series of Fair Deal measures to increase minimum wages, broaden social security, raise farm price supports through the Brannan plan. In essence, his program was a moderate dose of the old New Deal mixture: deficit financing, some brave whistling, some Government pump-priming...
...argue ourselves out of ratifying the pact," Vandenberg warned, "but we cannot thereby argue ourselves out of the jeopardy which the pact seeks to minimize . . . Appeasement is surrender on the installment plan...
...other hand, a policy of active resistance to communism in Asia is hard to envisage because it is so remote from U.S. political experience. It would be much more difficult than U.S. anti-Communist strategy for Europe as worked out in the Marshall Plan and the Atlantic pact...
...other Western sources. The U.S. and Britain have demanded the closing of the Greek frontier as a prior condition to granting such loans. At Pola, Tito explained: "We are not selling our conscience and our souls." Nevertheless, it looked as if somebody was selling something-on the installment plan...
...conservative or as speculative a program as they wanted. If their main interest was income they could buy any of four bond funds, or two preferred-stock funds; if they wanted to gamble for quick profits they could choose from four speculative common-stock funds. Sholley's plan paid off; today Keystone, with $170 million in assets, is second only to M.I.T...