Word: program
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Northwest ever since his troops hurled back the Communists of the Long March in 1934-35. A highhanded but benevolent despot, he has also given his spare, dry, upland Chinghai province (pop. 1,500,000) some of China's best roads, extensive irrigation works and a spectacular reforestation program. Over 13 years he supervised the planting of millions of willow, poplar and acacia seedlings to shade the roads, check riverbank erosion, supply fuel. "Even when I was a little boy," he once explained, "I liked to plant trees. In Chinghai, trees mean greenery and water, life and abundance...
...Record. The Liberals went to the country on their record. They promised nothing new, but they pointed with pride to their welfare-state program, baby bonuses, unemployment insurance, etc. The Tories accepted these measures and, in the fashion of U.S. Republicans, promised to administer them better...
...meant a fall of 1.8 billion pesos in the taxes that Chile collects on mine operations. "If this situation had presented itself in 1952 instead of 1949," sighed President Gabriel Gonzalez Videla, "it would have been of no importance." But at a time when Chile's industrial development program (TIME, May 30) was still far from paying its own way, it was as important as life's blood...
...friendly little woman, brimming with vitality. She had to give up tennis while she was reducing. But when she is not on tour, she still roller-skates daily in Manhattan's Central Park. Even while she is busy preparing her part of the program for the Goethe Bicentennial celebration at Aspen, Colo, next month, she "keeps three kitchens going"-one at her sunlit 16th floor studio in the "heaven of Carnegie Hall," one in the nine-room house she runs as the wife of Dr. Shelby Rooks, Presbyterian minister, and one on their York River, Virginia farm, which...
...Page School, one of the most uncommon academies in existence, got its diplomas almost like any other senior class, with the playing of Pomp and Circumstance, a welcome by Principal Orson W. Trueworthy, an address by John W. Snyder, Secretary of the Treasury, and a misspelling ("salutorian") in the program...