Word: program
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...also dishing it out to the Germans at night, smashing full reserves (to hamstring the Luftwafle's training program), rail centres like Cologne, submarine-building and repair plants. But the harried British grew restive. U. S. correspondents grew cantankerous. It was absurd, they said, for the British censorship to try to hide the names of cities newly blasted by the Luftwafle, leaving citizens dependent upon German communiqués to confirm what their own eyes or common gossip knew quite well. Contributing to a concerted outburst of U. S. sarcasm, the Chicago Daily News correspondent, Robert J. Casey, wrote...
...tons of shipping, plus more than half a million tons of Belgian and Dutch shipping, bringing the total beyond 3,000,000 tons. Since the beginning of July, shipping losses have been at the rate of 4,000,000 tons a year. Against this the Admiralty's shipbuilding program aimed at only 1,250,000 tons in the first war year, and even this figure was not reached. Lord Beaverbrook had upped aircraft production at shipbuilding's expense, said Shinwell; the Government had not used its emergency powers to transfer labor to the most useful work; emergencies were...
...Harmon shrugged his shoulders. Unlike many big-time college football stars who major in physical education, he has primed himself for a radio career. As part of his radio course, he had conducted a payless 15-minute Saturday-morning sport program over a local Ann Arbor station. Last week, while he was being named for all the All-Americas in the land and showered with all the post-season trophies "for the most outstanding player of the year," Tom Harmon was far more excited over an invitation to appear for pay as guest star with Comedian Eddie Cantor...
Married. Jayne Smathers, 23, daughter of New Jersey's lank Senator William H. Smathers; and Albert Capatosta, 26, a radio program salesman; at Ventnor...
Since radio went all out for quiz shows, many a program expert has strained mightily to vary the monotony of the question and answer formula. Strange product of this striving is the NBC show, Truth or Consequences, through which Procter & Gamble plugs Ivory Soap. Based on the oldtime parlor game, Truth or Consequences differs from rival questionnaires in that it penalizes participants who are baffled by its queries. Boisterous, rowdy, full of custard-pie humor, the program last week was hard on the heels of top-rating quiz show Information Please...