Word: programed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...October 1916, the Hindenburg program for increased industrial and mining output was launched. That connoted a margin of productive capacity. This time German industries are producing at full capacity, can increase substantially only by finding fresh capital-and capital is scarce. There was also a severe labor shortage even before war began...
...White House conferees, all this called for more child help from the U. S. Government. They plumped for a glittering, 83-point program: Federal aid for schools, libraries, medical care, playgrounds, housing. They were only momentarily discouraged when President Franklin Roosevelt, addressing the conference, declared: "The permanent answer is not mere handouts from the Federal Treasury but has to be solved by improving the economics of the poorer sections. . . ." As the conference closed, Secretary Perkins prophesied: "The program . . . is one which I predict will be worked upon . . . for 30 years to come, when a new generation, pray God, is better...
...Macon, age 70, has gold uppers, alfalfa on his chin, sometimes sports pink gates-ajar collars. He has a ready rube wit. an endless repertory of high jinks, and plays three five-stringed banjos at once. Uncle Dave sets the tone & tune of Grand Ol' Opry, a radio program many plain folk in the South vastly prefer to Charlie McCarthy or Jack Benny...
...jealously eyed the deal. And well they might. For within three years 90% of the U. S.'s 2,345-ship, 8,909,892-ton seagoing merchant fleet will be obsolete (over 20 years old). To replace it the Maritime Commission's ten-year (1938-48) building program calls for 500 new ships, of which 38 have already left the ways. Whatever old bottoms can be sold at wartime (instead of scrap) prices will be just so much gravy for U. S. shipowners, will help pay for a fine new U. S. fleet...
...Russell Rowie, Jr. '41, president of the foundering Lampoon, will be on hand for a short interview on the extra-curricular activities of his magazine. The other feature on the New England Town Ball sponsored program will be an interview of Brown's intercollegiate sprint champ Kenneth Clapp...