Word: programing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...T.U.C. General Council, however, has no direct control over its constituent unions or their nearly 8,000,000 members. It can only "recommend." A real test of Cripps's disagreeable program will come next month, when leaders of individual unions meet. Already some unions had balked. Last week the huge Confederation of Shipbuilding & Engineering Unions (3,000,000 members) was still insisting on a general wage increase. Said Communist Arthur Horner, general secretary of the Mineworkers' Union: "The first blow in the economic crisis must be struck at profits and luxury living, not at wages...
...Hattie acted with Jinx Falkenberg and Betty Grable in a couple of sarong-draped movies. In the U.S., she also made some recordings and discarded her third husband (she is currently unmarried). Last year, between mainland triumphs, she went home and took to the air. With a disc jockey program on Honolulu's KPOA and an amateur hour on rival station KGMB, she registered her first solid hit with the natives...
Hattie's scripts are written in English, but she dishes them out in purest pidgin. Sample: ''Dis program we make fo' any kind people who like sing, kani kani pila [music], talk-story. Baby can try, school chiren can try and even if you makule [old] still okay. No need be sham...
...Symphony (Sat. 6:30 p.m., NBC). Toscanini, and an all-Russian program...
Semipro. In the. last year, A.T. &T. has raised more than $1.1 billion in new capital, for the biggest expansion program in its history. Wilson, a vice president, had put the program through at a time when many another corporation was finding the capital market sticky. It was one of the big reasons he was picked when Walter Gifford decided that he would like to step aside. An easy talker, with a good memory for faces and names, new President Wilson is an impressive example of copybook maxims put into practice. "If you know what you're fitted...