Word: programing
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Winthrop threw Dunster all over the ice and came up with an 11 to 0 conquest with Hal Tighhnan leading the attack with three tallies. Kirkland was defeated by Dudley 4 to 1 in a thrilling match. In the final feature of the program Eliot eked out a 4 to 3 win from Lowell. Lindley Burton chalked up all the Belboy markers, while for Eliot, Gordon Lyle passed the goalie twice and Fred Herter's score in the final minutes of play spelled victory for Eliot...
...past year, Hedda Hopper has been the No. i aerial gossip of Hollywood. Thrice weekly over a CBS network she has broadcast tittle-tattle about celluloid hotshots, under the sponsorship of the California Fruit Growers Exchange. Supplementing her syndicated newspaper column, Hedda's program has helped her to move in on the domain of Louella Parsons, Hearst's quidnunc extraordinary, who used to have Hollywood in her pudgy palms. Last week Gossip Hopper went swirling to Manhattan to be lionessed at luncheons, ballyhooed all over town...
...defense and normal steel needs both. Mr. Tower has frequently boasted of the industry's readiness to handle any emergency without expanding. Republic Steel's Tom Girdler echoed him: "If ev erything in this country was in as good shape as steel to supply the national-defense program and England, there would be nothing to worry about." U. S. Steel President Ben Fairless last fortnight made capital of the 12,000,000-ton steel-ingot expansion which his industry has completed since Depression...
...that British losses were at the rate of 72,000 gross tons a week in November, more than 80,000 tons a week since, a total of about 2,500,000 tons since beginning of the war. Since England's highest hopes for her own new shipbuilding program are only 1,350,000 tons a year, less than a third the present rate of sinkings, ships stand high on the British must-have list...
...shipping lines, the growing scarcity values of vessels of any age has been the biggest stimulus to modernization since the Maritime Commission began its building program in 1938. When war began, the U. S. merchant marine consisted of 2,345 ocean-going vessels of 8,909,892 gross tons and was largely obsolescent. Over 7% of these old ships, which practically had been written off the books and would have been sold for scrap in a few years, now have been sold to England or Canada. At about $50 a ton, owners have received some $31 million-enough for down...