Word: program
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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President Truman (Mon. 4 p.m., CBS). Speech on U.N. anniversary program...
Just before the Tories convened, Lord Beaverbrook, most powerful of Tory publishers, splashed across his front pages his own ten-point program for Britain's salvation. His main points: ¶ All-out effort for empire self-sufficiency ("The empire comes first . . . Without the empire not only is there no hope for the future-there is no future"). ¶ A minimum wage of ?6 ($16.80) for British workers, but at the same time "no limitation on dividends. Pioneers should be encouraged to go into . . . new industries...
...answer. As some observers had predicted (TIME, Oct. 10), the decision was to let things ride until spring. By that time, Labor hopes to repair some of the political damage which it suffered in the devaluation crisis. This week Attlee will put before Parliament a new economic program including reduction in government expenditures and other measures which, as Deputy Prime Minister Herbert Morrison put it, "are bound to be unpleasant...
...kind of slot machine without banning them all. A machine built to sell candy bars could just as easily sell contraceptives provided they were wrapped in the same package. Besides, said the ministry, slot machines of all types were an important item in Britain's export program...
...year-old grandmother, lifted the receiver. Carefully she answered the three questions put to her by the man at the other end of the line. At that point, Mrs. Cohen walked into pandemonium. She had hit the $28,000 jackpot on CBS's Sing It Again giveaway program...