Word: program
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...billion a year for the Brannon farm program (a hazy estimate by supporters; opponents think it would probably cost a great deal more...
...billion a year for the Truman socialized health program (to be paid, at least in part, by a tax on payrolls). $1.5 billion for the Columbia and Missouri Valley Authorities...
...officials cautiously started to let some money pour into West Germany's economic pool. The Bank Deutscher Länder relaxed credit restrictions by lowering the rediscount rate for its member banks. West Germany's economic boss, Dr. Ludwig Erhard, announced an 8½-billion-mark investment program for the coming fiscal year...
...thing, the new $500,000 stage was not finished. Guest Conductor Fritz Reiner had had to rehearse while workmen hammered unsympathetically, and his program of Wagner, Beethoven and Rachmaninoff had its rough spots. The new amplification system had eliminated the echoes that concertgoers had loved to grumble about in the past-but it had replaced them with some equally awesome squeaks and yowls. When the program ended, the crowd gave the musicians (mostly New York Philharmonic-Symphony men) a big hand, listened politely and impatiently while Concert Co-Chairmen Mayor William O'Dwyer and Sam Lewisohn said...
...private housing program ever stirred up such a furor in Washington as Lustron Corp.'s plan to build 150 enameled steel houses a day-if the Government would put up the money. After some squabbling, RFC obliged. Last week, Arkansas' Senator J. William Fulbright, whose Banking & Currency Sub-committee was digging into RFC's affairs, popped an interesting question: Did people want to live in steel houses? "I have only seen one of them," said Fulbright, "but it sort of reminds you of a bathtub...