Word: programming
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Federal budget during the past four years to meet a great emergency. That policy has succeeded. The emergency that we faced in 1933 no longer exists. I am fully aware that many of our problems remain unsolved. ... I am further aware that some persons contend that another great spending program is desirable to ward off the risk of another great business depression. . . . But ... I have reached the firm conviction that the domestic problems which face us today are essentially different from those which faced us four years ago. Many measures are required for their solution. One of these measures...
...Washington this week, the 24th Special Session of Congress in U. S. history convened under circumstances to which Senator Ashurst's remark was peculiarly pertinent. When Franklin Delano Roosevelt last month called the Session to deal with a five-point legislative program, the U. S. was, relatively speaking, economically content. The five weeks since have been just long enough to include the first serious decline in U. S. business since 1933. To the notable opportunities for controversy already foreseen for the special session, the slump added another. This week, when Vice President Garner in the Senate and Speaker William...
Question of what Congress will make of this formidable program in the next six weeks, and of whether it will do anything much besides laying the groundwork for the regular session, was this week almost as mysterious as Senator Ashurst made it sound. The Wages & Hours Bill was last week exactly where it was last summer-tied up by an unfavorable House Rules Committee. Neither the farm bill nor the bill to create seven regional TVAs was clearly formulated. Executive reorganization looked like the first item on the calendar but on it also was something definitely not included...
...which will be obsolescent within the next five years. In vessels of twelve knots or more the U. S. ranks behind Great Britain, Germany, Japan and France. In vessels of ten years or less it ranks even behind Italy. To keep ahead of obsolescence would require a building program of $500,000,000 per year for the next five years...
...follows, all deputy commissioners and inspectors in city health units, will study under a new program financed by the United States Public Health Service...