Word: programing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...penny-wise U. S. Congress which had cut river control funds early in 1947. So once again, Congress found itself faced with the perplexing problem of what to do with the Missouri River. The piecemeal sandbag method evidently wasn't working. But although President Truman called for an ambitious program of flood control, Congress didn't feel inclined to do much about...
Cinema star John Carradine will be interviewed by the Crimson Network tonight as a special feature of WHRV. The transcribed program goes out on the air waves at 9 o'clock...
...takes place in a small Missouri town immediately after the Civil War. It concerns the perverse hatred of three brothers and their grandfather for a local rancher, who apparently contrived to have two of the brothers captured by the Rebels during the war as part of a long-range program designed to wipe out the entire family. There is some confusion as to whether the rancher actually intended the capture, and this suffices to prolong the revenge for three acts, while the merits of the case are aired with much vigor but little consequences. The trouble is that the actors...
...blood banks and other emergency medical services had been available at Hiroshima, 20,000 lives might have been saved, according to the Veterans Administration's Dr. George M. Lyon. He and other experts urged setting up a medical program for civilian defense...
...recent survey of those who could choose between competitive radio and television programs, said Langhoff, showed that 94% chose television. Said he: ". . . When these two stand up and slug it out there is little doubt . . . who is the coming champ." Langhoff warned sponsors against wearing out the television audience with tediously repeated commercials. Since television demands undivided attention of the viewer, said Langhoff, it also "induces fatigue at a much greater rate than . . . radio, and possibly encourages sly drooping of the eyelids during the duller portions of a program...