Word: program
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...that would be forced on the Government (now calculated at $2 billion worth by the end of the next fiscal year), the bill provided that any of these foods liable to spoilage could be used in barter deals abroad. Failing that, they could be given to the school lunch program, to charities, or to the Indians. All they had to do was come...
...true that the Air Force, with its $1.4 billion B-36 program, was "putting all its eggs in one basket?" General Hoyt Vandenberg, Air Force chief, answered with figures. B-36s, he said, comprised only 5% (four groups) of the total of regular military aircraft. The Air Force also had eleven groups of other bombers (about 330 B-29s and B-50s), and some 33 groups of heavy and medium reconnaissance, fighter, troop carrier and other miscellaneous aircraft...
This week in the House of Commons the Prime Minister brought his retrenchment program out in the open. Where the members had expected a mountain, it was only a mouse. The overall pruning of government expense, Attlee said, would amount to ?250 million ($700 million) of which ?140 million would be accounted for by a cutback in capital investment-schools, hospitals, highways, fuel and power facilities, etc. In addition, residential housing and other building would be cut back by ?70 million. The outlay for education would be trimmed by ?5,000,000, resulting in costlier school lunches...
Later this week the Attlee program would be debated for two days in the House of Commons. The Tories, who had made so much political hay lately, were sure to make a lot more...
...composer himself. As accompanist for English Tenor Peter Pears, who created the leading roles in all of Britten's major operas, "Benjy" proved himself as astute on the platform at the piano as he is in his parlor with a pen. When the nicely varied and nicely performed program of original Brittens, Britten-arranged Purcell and English folk songs was over, the welcoming audience showed its appreciation...