Word: programing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Chancellor of the Exchequer Sir Stafford Cripps promised to lift currency controls "at the earliest possible time." (Few observers expect this time to arrive in the next two years.) U.S. Treasury Secretary John Snyder told Sir Stafford that the $400 million would help Britain "to maintain its present austerity program...
...television seemed to be discouraging a certain type of trespasser on the great male sanctuary. Said one tavern keeper: "Funny thing, hustlers don't play these bars with television much, not until after the program is over for the night. Too much conflict of interest...
...Owens has spent half his life as a radio entertainer. On his Chicago Breakfast Club program, he seems to have something the ladies like. It troubled him at first that his singing voice sounded like a man with a cold in the nose. Says he: "Then a hillbilly singer told me that was 'resonance' and that the women would go for it. I've let it go ever since. That's the sex in my voice." He also has a cute routine: he comes down into his radio audience with a portable mike. First he parks...
...Department of Agriculture has already spent $35 million on a slaughter program in Mexico and failed to wipe out the disease (TIME, Dec. 8). Now, because of the rebellion of Mexican campesinos, who could not understand why their cattle should be given up to slaughter, the killing has been stopped (except animals actually infected) in favor of quarantine and vaccination of all Mexican cattle. But Bob Kleberg storms that neither of these methods has ever proved effective unless accompanied by slaughter and burial...
...N.A.M. put forth its own anti-inflation program with a plea to management to redouble its "efforts to increase production, lower unit costs, and pass on the benefits of such increased productivity to the public." It asked union labor to show restraint...