Word: plans
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Voted the sliding-scale Anderson plan for support of farm prices, despite a hurried conference called by President Truman to urge costlier and rigid 90% supports. The bill deadlocked in conference with the House, which insisted on extension of 90% support level...
With varying degrees of exasperation and bitterness, the Navy's angry men pounded away last week at an astonishing variety of targets-the atomic bomb, the Air Force, strategic bombing, the National Defense Department, the basic U.S. war plan. In the klieg-lighted clamor of the House Armed Services Committee room, officer after officer took the stand. Some fired off a few wild shots...
Major subject on the Universalist agenda was the perennial plan for merger with the Unitarians, who were also feeling cramped by Christian creeds. In the current issue of the Unitarian Christian Register, 127 Unitarian ministers of New England endorsed a five-point statement of faith. Said the Rev. Dilworth Lupton of Waltham, Mass.: "Behind the statement is our conviction that religion resembles art; it is bigger than any of its manifestations. And the conviction, too, that our Unitarian churches should be fellowships where, as in art centers, people holding various theories could come together for common enrichment...
...Shah was deposed in 1941, and his son, Mohamed Reza Pahlevi, ascended the throne, things were put on a more businesslike basis. A year ago, the young Shah hired Overseas Consultants, Inc., an eleven-member combine of U.S. industrial consultants and engineering firms,* to blueprint a seven-year plan to develop and industrialize Persia...
Point Four & Plan. The combine was first organized 2½ years ago at the suggestion of the U.S. Government to conduct a survey of Japan. Named as president was Clifford S. Strike, 46, president of Manhattan's F. H. McGraw & Co., which built, among other World War II projects, the $36 million Bermuda air base. Last week in a green-carpeted office on Manhattan's East 42nd Street, O.C.I. President Strike and Board Chairman