Word: programing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...government published a White Paper describing Britain's export-import program for 1948-49; it left no one breathless. Its figures showed, however, that the British people and the U.S. dollars they were getting under the Marshall Plan had been working hard and to good effect. Production in all key sectors of the nation's economy was substantially higher than in 1947. Agriculture, in spite of bad weather, was up 25% above the prewar level; industry was up 20%. Exports were 34% greater than they were ten years...
...farmer can find at least three things wrong with a typical early morning farm program: 1) its broadcast of yesterday's prices is no help on tomorrow's market; 2) the program is on the air at a time when he is out doing his chores; 3) it can hardly be heard anyway, what with static and fading caused by his distance from the big-city transmitter...
...alone, no less than five new plants worth $15 million or more apiece were opened for production or research. U.S. Steel, which opened one of them near San Francisco (see below), planned to have another one near Los Angeles by 1950. Greenwood Mills announced a new $21 million expansion program; Sun Oil Co., a $70 million program; members of the American Gas Association will spend $3.3 billion. Westinghouse Electric Corp., which reported an alltime record in appliance production for September, saw no letup. Said Vice President J. H. Ashbaugh: "We are planning on increasing production on all products...
...glint in his eye and may soon have a new Ford in his garage. Russell is the student who is calling Fred Allen's bluff by asking reimbursement for a new Ford he might have won had he not been listening to the comedian's program two Sundays...
Russell is trying to take the gag-man up on his guarantee to make good any give-away prize missed because the listener is tuned to his program...