Word: programing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...first Danube Valley Esperanto Conference recently held in Budapest,† with Communist blessings, 230 delegates launched an approved program for systematizing the teaching of Esperanto in the high schools of Czechoslovakia, Yugoslavia, Hungary and Bulgaria...
What had happened to the nation's glamorous program for peacetime uses of nuclear energy? In 1946, the Manhattan District had predicted that an experimental atomic power plant would be ready for testing in two years. But last week this plan was still far from realization. Grumbled Physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer, "It seems as though every reactor is always two years off." What had gone wrong...
...Atomic Energy Commission (which took over from Manhattan District) yanked the foundation from under the Daniels pile. Practical work on a $10-20 million power plant was premature, it said. The wise course was to abandon a frontal assault on the problem and switch to a low-priority program of cautious, long-range experimentation...
Both steps meant that the power program was back on the tracks at last. But the delay had been costly. Said Argonne's Director Zinn: "I don't know how far away power is. The only way to find out these things is by work. If you don't work on it, it gets even farther away...
...Mediterranean run, American Export Lines ordered two 20,000-ton passenger liners with air-conditioned cabins and the latest safety devices (radar, automatic steering controls, radios on life boats). The ships will be built at Bethlehem Steel Corp.'s Quincy, Mass, yards. Under a stepped-up program of shipbuilding subsidies (TIME, Aug. 2), the Government will pay $20 million of the $46,830,000 construction cost...