Word: program
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...Polaris program is producing missile subs at the rate of one every four months; a total of $2.7 billion has been appropriated for it. The Navy has successfully fired dummy missiles from below the surface, and the development versions of Polaris missile have made good scores in surface firings (more than 900 miles). If Raborn can keep his promise to make Polaris operational late this year, George Washington will be three years ahead of schedule-and uncounted years ahead in the singular art of nuclear warfare...
Indiana-born Pressagent Hudson Biery had always considered the Ohio one of his charity clients. In 1935 he got the backing of the Cincinnati Enquirer and the Cincinnati Chamber of Commerce, was made chairman of a committee that set out to sell a cleanup program, shocked regional audiences and newspaper readers with crude, graphic facts. One quart in every gallon of Ohio water was raw sewage, equal to "700 dead horses floating by Cincinnati every day," he said. "We in Cincinnati can always tell when people in Pittsburgh have had asparagus for dinner...
...that Go-getter Ryan has stirred more publicity for East Africa in six months than the government has in 20 years. Asked if he expects to turn a profit on his investment, Entrepreneur Ryan turns magically into Philanthropist Ryan, insists that any profit will be used to inaugurate a program to preserve East Africa as the most important wild animal stronghold known to man, "or something like that...
...corner table at the Bay View or Filipinas hotels, where he listens to complaints and requests, or talks profusely on a plugged-in telephone, punctuating his conversations with shots of whisky and four-letter expletives. Sunday nights, Lacson is heard by Manilans on a half-hour radio program (prerecorded to edit out his blue words) in which he speaks his mind on subjects ranging from midwives to the military defense of Southeast Asia...
...commission conducted no independent investigation, such as questioning the complainant [or] program producers." Also reprehensible, said Rogers, was a fact reported by FCCommissioner Frederick Ford: when station licenses come up for renewal, and licensees are asked to justify their past operation, "only six employees review this information, and about five-and-one-half hours is spent on each renewal." Added Rogers: ''We are advised that no television station has ever been required to go to hearing on its renewal application because of programing practices." Although in 1951 the FCC had announced a "public conference'' to discuss...