Word: programed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...TlME, PAGE 42, ARTICLE HEADED "LISTEN GODOY" REFERS TO "WE, THE PEOPLE" AS "SANKA COFFEE'S TUESDAY-NIGHT ODDITORIUM OF THE AIR." MAY I CALL YOUR ATTENTION TO THE FACT THAT "ODDITORIUM OF THE AIR" IS OWNED BY MYSELF AND APPLIED TO MY OWN "BELIEVE IT OR NOT" PROGRAM, SPONSORED BY ROYAL CROWN COLA, FRIDAYS OVER 89 CBS STATIONS FROM...
Greatest weakness of the subsidy program was the fact that 82% of all silver bought by the U. S. had come from overseas. In order to get their subsidy, the silver producers were willing that the U. S. squander indiscriminately abroad. Ranger Townsend rode through this weak point in the stockade, unloosed both barrels with a bill to end foreign silver purchases...
...Ranger Townsend was riding high, in his cartridge belt fresh ammunition to blow to kingdom come the silverites' arguments. To protests that ending foreign purchases would bruise U. S.-Mexican relations, Senator Townsend could merely ask "What relations?" and snap one word: "Oil." To reminders that the silver program was designed to raise the world price artificially, he could note that the price was lower than ever (34¾?) and that without the U. S. purchase plan† the natural price might be 10 to 15? per oz., which would permit the lowliest proletarian to own complete sets...
Prime Minister Chamberlain replied that his eloquent predecessor, whom he lumped among "venerable prophets of agriculture," was unduly alarmed. The Government's program besides bringing 2,000,000 acres back into cultivation, includes urging people to grow their own vegetables, encouraging subsistence farming. A laying hen in every tool shed is an objective...
...news, as U. S. editors understand it. Informed the German people might be, but what they swallowed was a carefully winnowed, ground, boiled, predigested gruel, designed to nourish but not invigorate their minds. The Nazi press was free from "foreign lies," free to support the Reich's worldwide program of expansion-but not free to publish what it pleased...