Word: program
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...prosperity," declared Georgia's studious Walter George. "If we do not make every effort to [maintain export trade], we might as well abandon the Marshall Plan and stop wasting our money." After seven days of debate, the Senate was facing a vote on extension of the reciprocal-trade program...
...down. One offered by Wisconsin's Joseph McCarthy to put quotas on Russian furs was defeated only after a tie vote was broken by Alben Barkley, exercising the Vice President's prerogative for the first time. Then the Senate approved the bill itself, extending the reciprocal trade program for two years by a thumping 62 votes...
...steelworkers' Philip Murray could scarcely have been more overbearing. Jubilant over the presidential fact finders' recommendations that steel operators pay their workers up to 10? an hour for an insurance and pension program (TIME, Sept. 19), he wired U.S. Steel's austere President Benjamin Fairless: "Promptly and plainly advise me whether your companies are likewise willing to accept the recommendations of the board as a basis [for] settlement...
...Such a program in a basic industry like steel, Fairless declared, would set a pattern which would undermine the theory of all the hundreds of contributory plans in the U.S. Furthermore, a national pattern of noncontributory programs "would be a fourth round of employee benefits dressed in different clothes." Such a program would cost the steel industry about $200 million a year and would lift the cost of steel, Fairless added significantly, as much...
...Montgomery (reportedly at $5,000 per week) when Lee ended its 3½-year tie-up with Gossipist Drew Pearson. Asked his opinion of his predecessor, Montgomery replied with a brisk "No comment." But he admitted that "I'm not going to use a crystal ball on this program...