Word: programing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Voice of the People, a Tokyo radio program devoted to the living arts, last week told its listeners about the live art of butt-snatching. Some fine points...
Hubble's own program for the 200-inch is mainly along two lines. He hopes to clock the speeds of nebulae up to 500 million light-years away, to see if their speed of recession still increases with increasing distance. If it does, his exploding universe theory will be on a firmer footing...
...distillers weren't impressed. They knew that preliminary estimates on the 1948 wheat crop were so favorable that last week the grain market had a severe slump (see Col. 3). They could quote Secretary of Agriculture Clinton P. Anderson's own optimistic testimony (on the European Recovery Program) that grain supplies were ample. They could point to foreign distilleries using grain for whiskey (for export to the U.S. for dollars...
...Angeles Chamber of Commerce one of the most successful forces of its kind in the world. Last week, it totted up its achievements for the past year. It had 1) helped get freight-rate reductions on steel from Geneva, Utah; 2) promoted a $1 billion state highway program with special benefits for Los Angeles; and 3) persuaded 200 new enterprises, with about 7,800 new jobs, to settle in the city. (The cost to the Chamber was only $2.75 a job.) It is largely because of its yeasty Chamber of Commerce that Los Angeles can claim to be the third...
...gasoline tax. Oilmen who are members of the Chamber not only opposed the idea, they spent thousands to fight it. Chamber President Clarence Beesemyer is an oilman himself (vice president of General Petroleum Corp., a subsidiary of Socony-Vacuum Oil Co., Inc.). But he helped the Chamber fight the program through the state legislature...