Word: programs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Hoover had started a buzz of farm relief talk at White Pine Camp. Later, Charles S. Barrett, head of the National Farmers' Union, came up for the weekend. Finally the President announced a plan to put into effect, privately and unofficially, the farm relief program which he indorsed at the last session of Congress...
...Edsel Ford reported to the President concerning the progress of the Ford industries in commercial aviation, told him of a program to build 100 all-metal, three-motored planes which can carry a ton of freight efficiently and at comparatively low cost (TIME...
...Hoover program opens the Government air mail routes to commercial and private aviators. The Department of Commerce will have additional illumination and landing facilities on the two chief routes within six months, so that postal contracts can be turned over to private concerns to enable them to maintain a more extensive freight and passenger service. The two airways to be immediately developed...
...than that for which they are fighting but enjoined them to a last ditch fight to retain the seven-hour day. The Seven Hours Act was temporarily abrogated by the Eight Hours Act (TIME, July 12 et seq.) which is the keystone of Premier Baldwin's anti-strike program. ¶ Learned that ten Church of England Bishops and twelve Nonconformist dignitaries had drawn up a proposal (seconded at once by the Miners' Federation conference) that Premier Baldwin repeal the Eight Hours Act in return for which the miners would agree to arbitration of wages. ¶ Smiled at alarmist...
...year and more the Chamber has demonstrated its disinclination and its incapacity to legislate. Almost every possible program for saving the franc has been presented to it, and has been rejected on grounds of petty local politics. The Deputies have refused to vote adequate taxes, or to ratify either the Franco-British or the Franco-U. S. debt settlements. Amid this carnival, this debauch of legislative folly, the franc has lost two-thirds of its value within a year...