Word: programming
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...cards are to be white and red-white for the 90-odd percent of farmers who presumably are complying with AAA's acreage control program; red for approximately 250,000 noncomplying individualists...
Reason for the 1938 program and its attendant complexities was that cotton farmers last year cultivated 34,471,000 acres, grew the huge total of 18,945,022 bales, had to fall back on Government loans, wound up with a carry-over sufficient to depress this year's prices. So Mr. Wallace invoked the powers-granted him in the new AAA, instituted drastic control, got a majority of farmers to approve by referendum. Last week Mr. Wallace's analysts announced the result: a cultivated acreage of 26,904,000, lower than any since the Department of Agriculture began...
...Upon emerging, Leader Arcand wired thanks to the mayor for "courtesy extended," announced the formation of a new National Unity Party. A flaming torch will be the new party's emblem, "Canada for the Canadians" its slogan, the upraised arm its salute and "King, Country and Christianity" its program...
Dewey in charge of the department, assigned to work out a program of flexible freight rates for farm products. Because of the present state of U. S. railroading. no immediate demands for lower rates will be made. Dr. Dewey, sedate, brown-haired, 37, got his Ph.D. at University of Michigan, made special studies of transportation and public utilities, has lately been chief of the division of transportation for the Bureau of the Census and Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce...
Percentages of total time devoted to the other six types of program...