Word: programing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...well I remember the dreary and profitless hours studying Latin, literature, history and other inane and dry subjects. And in college a continuation of the same program. What a waste of my time. Much better it would have been had I been taken out of school at the age of 14 and put to work and tried out at various vocations to discover what pleased me; and if I found I needed more book learning, then, and only then, I could return to the proper school to learn what I needed, instead of being filled with a lot of useless...
...event of midyear that was the most significant. On June 5, standing under the elms in the Harvard Yard, George Marshall, in almost casual terms, announced the beginning of the program that was to become the Marshall Plan. Then & there the U.S. at last set out to seize the initiative from Russia in the cold...
...Cowan, who got to thinking how important U.S. farm folk are in a hungry world. It occurred to him that radio had no adequate showcase for-or interest in-rural America; even Hooperatings are taken only in the larger cities.So he asked John Lewellen, the Quiz Kids' program director, to work up a proper show. Lewellen, who was raised on a farm near Gaston, Ind., sent his parents out over the R.F.D.s of rural America to drum up interest and recruit performers...
This year BBC's television unit will begin what Program Director Cecil McGivern calls "the real guts of television" -a series of documentary studies of coal production, infantile paralysis, housing, other problems. McGivern believes that television is "far more effective than the written word, the spoken word, or the movies. ... It will be the biggest social force ever...
...Little? The only reason he signed the bill at all, the President wrote, was because it covered three of the ten points contained in the program he submitted to Congress in November: extended export controls, extended control over rail facilities, authority to promote increased farm production. These three measures, he said, "are needed now." But "they are of minor importance compared with . . . the key measures which are essential to an effective anti-inflation program." In particular, the President wanted stand-by authority for compulsory allocations, rationing and wage-price controls...