Word: programing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Hardy Network platter-spinners concluded almost 90 continuous hours of broadcasting at noon yesterday. The longest non-stop program in Crimson recorded history began Thursday with Mozart and finished yesterday with hillbilly tunes...
...False Representative." In 1946, Sadie claims, she was nearly ruined by a magazine article which reported that her Brooklyn apartment was jampacked with program loot, and that she netted an average $35 a week in prize money. For six months, she moans, she couldn't get on a single program: "What a noive to say I make thoity-five dollars! I never won a refrigerator in all my living life. They gimme a false representative...
...Then note the remarkable phenomenon of the military . . . supporting fundamental research by contract with universities. Who would have expected ... to find the U.S. Navy vigorously furthering a program . . . including nucleonics and genetics...
Last week The Alchemist was given a lively airing-as the first bill in the New York City Center's spring theater program. Set smack in Jonson's lusty London, the play tells of three high-flying cheats, one of whom professes to be an alchemist, and of the brisk trade they drive. Dupes and sharpers alike are finally discomfited; but first the alchemist is sought out by every kind and condition of hopeful, from a modest lawyer's clerk who has an itch to gamble to the City knight, Sir Epicure Mammon, with his sumptuous...
...make sure that key sections of the economy get what they need, the American Petroleum Institute drew up a tentative, voluntary rationing program. Under it, oil companies would give top priorities to farmers, doctors, transit lines, and the armed forces. If such voluntary means do not work, the House Committee warned: "There is simply no alternative" to Government controls and a return to oil rationing...