Word: chart
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...entirety, will be in the water before 1947. But last week, the rambling, white-walled Navy Building on Washington's Constitution Avenue was full of the expectation that most of the great fleet would be in commission by the end of 1945. Unofficially, Navy officers said that this chart of deliveries was, if anything, on the conservative side...
Since 1933 Variety, U. S. weekly show chart, has annually made a survey of radio, awarded plaques to outstanding networks and stations. Last week Variety passed out its 1940 kudos. Plaques went to NBC for promoting "programs in the public interest," to the National Association of Broadcasters "for its code defending tolerance," to CBS for "stimulating local show management," to Young & Rubicam for effective radio copy, to Mexico City's XEW for leadership in show management...
...trouble getting men, even though Marine Corps enlistments are for four years. It still picks and chooses applicants, rejecting about 80%. By week's end the strength of the Corps, recorded daily on a chart in General Holcomb's office, stood at 37,500 (not including 4,000 reservists being called to active duty). At the training stations at Parris Island, S. C. and San Diego, Calif., young recruits were put in tow of hard-mouthed N. C. O.s in starched khaki, to be taught how to look, act and think like Marines...
...Harvard the responsibility for enforcement of those peace pledges rests on you. No name alone can do that job. Rather from the dormitory, from the classroom, from the club, and from the team must come that resounding activity which will chart for America a course more fortunate than Wilson...
...greater reason for the President's loneliness. Few had sought and none had won a third election to the Presidency. Knowing U. S. history as a boy knows batting averages, Franklin Roosevelt knew that he had left the shelter of precedent, had pushed off on a course without chart or landmark. Through the vapor that is the future he could steer only by the North Star of his own purpose...