Word: programers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...harvesters of the U.S.'s scandalous farm subsidy program, none have harvested more profitably than a bulky (6 ft., 190 Ibs.), hearty Kansan named Ray Hugh Garvey. Wichita's Garvey, 66, is a businessman of wide and wealth-producing interests: he controls a 500-well oil company (with a 27½% depletion allowance on federal corporate income taxes), a loo-house-a-year building firm (most with FHA-insured mortgages), a fuel-distribution company selling to farmers (who often use gas unstintingly because of a 2½-per-gallon rebate on federal taxes). But it is from...
...building a 100,000-acre wheat 'and cattle empire. In 1947 he became the world's No. i grower with a crop of close to 1,000,000 bushels. As any U.S. taxpayer should know, wheat is one of the basic commodities supported by the federal farm program-and in the last four years Garvey has received $791,488 in support loans for wheat he raised, plus $405,647 in cash from the federal soil bank program for the acreage he left idle. But all that wheat, and the wheat grown by other farmers, needs storing. And what...
...successful is Ray Garvey at the taxpayer's expense that even he sometimes has his doubts. "We operate under the program," he said last week. "We don't set it." He need not worry: the U.S. Congress, touting the farm subsidy program as a boon to the small farmer, still seems more than willing to go on making multimillionaires out of the Ray Hugh Garveys...
...deadly instrument of interpellations (questions in debate). The technique was to pop a question at a minister, then toss in a series of motions, and demand a debate and a vote on every single one of them. As perfected in the 1952 debate that stymied the Tunisian reform program of Premier Pinay's government, this method of ministerial massacre has been known ever since as " Tunisification...
...responsibility for both policy and production. He pushed hard for a standard cost system throughout the company. He expanded its savings plan, whereby the company matches every dollar saved by its nonunion employees (the union turned down the plan) with 50? of its own, and he broadened the incentive program, which now covers 75% of all employees either through cash awards for production ideas or through stock options. Blough, who himself picked up most of his 19,302 shares of U.S. Steel stock (worth $1,800,000) through options, considers the incentive program "one of the great factors...