Word: programing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Atabrine & DDT. Soon UNESCO's scientists will go to Belém, at the Amazon's broad mouth, to start their institute work. As the program gets under way, they will move upstream, analyzing the soil, trying to find out what man may do with it and himself in the heat and rain. Here & there they will come upon other pith-helmeted, mosquito-booted men laden with atabrine, DDT bombs, boxed instruments, and closely guarded notes. These are the geologists of the major oil companies looking for petroleum lands. Ever since Peru's Ganso Azul (Blue Goose...
...York Herald Tribune's Don Cook who "doctored" her stories. She got homesick, flew home the day before the wedding.) One wire serviceman (U.P.'s Robert Muesel) filed a 2,400-word "past tense" account of the wedding in advance, padded out from the program. Then he sat in the Abbey checking his story and saved valuable time by merely radioing a release to New York...
...ultimate in program popularity testing was promised last week by CBS. If its new radar-like spy system lives up to its pressagentry, program directors will be all but able to read listeners' minds...
...black gadget boxes attached to the family radio in "scientifically selected" homes. These boxes, responding to signals from station transmitters, will flash radio messages back at the rate of one a minute. At the station, these thousands of messages will be electronically counted and translated into graphs showing a program's minute-to-minute popularity...
Despite the difficulties before them the debaters will continue with their Ivy League program and will try to place a team in the national contest which will take place at West Point later this year. Harvard Princeton, Brown, and Pennsylvania are on the season's roster...