Word: programming
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...bills paid (TIME, June 21). The remedy, according to Dr. Cabot & friends: Let the Government pay school and hospital deficits, provide medical care for the indigent. The A. M. A.'s Journal scolded: "Lamentable!" By last week 430 noted U. S. physicians and surgeons had plumped for this program, signed a nine-point manifesto embodying such reforms...
Over the city of Sao Paulo, Brazil for six years has hung a continual pall of acrid smoke. Meanwhile, the sky above Medellin, Colombia has been clear. Last week this fact was responsible for the death of a crop control program far older and far bigger than any ever attempted by the New Deal. With a suddenness which upset coffee cups all over the world the Brazilian Government announced that it would abandon its 31-year attempt to limit coffee production, would adopt instead a policy of open competition...
...That year the Government bought coffee to use in paying foreign balances, lost heavily. In 1906 the Government began a valorization, scheme (buying coffee at artificial prices, during fat years, storing it for resale during lean) which lasted until the War. It was semi-successful. A second valorization program, started in 1924, proved a vast failure when there were four bumper crops in succession. Result was the 1930 Brazilian Revolution and the creation of the Departamento Nacional do Cafe, which has been grappling with the problem ever since...
...inaugurated a program of destroying coffee bought from growers with the proceeds of a $2.40 per bag export tax on coffee.* Familiar sights in Brazil ever since have been huge grey-green piles of coffee beans smouldering slowly away under great smoke plumes, barges lumbering out to sea to dump coffee overboard, workmen mixing coffee and tar into briquets for building. Since 1931 these activities have destroyed 52,547,493 bags of coffee (almost 7,000,000,000 lb.), worth at last week's price of 9⅛per lb. some $638,750,000, and sufficient to supply every...
Others pointed out that the utility industry had a $3,200,000,000 expansion program, ready to uncork if only the Government would rescind its "death sentence."* Affectionately cheered was white-fringed old Alex Dow, president of Detroit Edison Co., when he pleaded: "To what end is business being guided, anyway? Is investment of their moneys or speculation for profit to be made safe for the stupid and for those overwise in their own conceits- by policing every traveler on that road? Are we to mark the way of the Lord through business laws and ethics according to the specifications...