Word: programing
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...towards defense needs, the Navy's Admiral Forrest Sherman went before the House Armed Services Committee to unwrap some of the Navy's ambitious dreams for the future. He was not begging money for next year's budget: he had in mind a $335 million construction program for the 1952 budget...
...Washington, meanwhile, the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development granted a $26 million loan to the Mexican Light & Power Co., Ltd., to help finance the company's expansion program through 1952. The bank noted that Mexico's growing population has made extra electrical power for industrialization a matter of top priority; Mexlight generates about 45% of Mexico's power...
...Carnegie's big stage, Anna Maria had gone through a program that might have taxed many an older, more experienced singer. She had sailed confidently and surely through the coloratura flights of Rigoletto's Caro Nome and Una Voce Poco Fa from The Barber of Seville, had expertly sung the difficult death aria from La Traviata. In her pink silk party dress, hands clasped in front of her, she sang her songs in a clear sweet voice that made one listener stand up and shout in rapturous Italian: "Un' angelo dal paradiso...
...tenth birthday, Lucia Chase's Ballet Theatre put its name back up on the Manhattan marquee where it first appeared. When the curtain went up in Rockefeller Center's huge (3,000 seats) Center Theatre, fans saw Les Sylphides, which opened Ballet Theatre's first program. No one in the audience needed opera glasses to see how far Ballet Theatre had come in polish and precision in the interval. But the fans reserved their biggest applause for American ballets such as Agnes de Mille's Fall River Legend-just the kind of ballets that Lucia Chase...
...omniscient bookworm who is convinced that radio's money-splurging quiz shows threaten the U.S. with "intellectual destruction," and sets out to strike a blow for intellectual salvation. An expert who can't be stumped, he appears on Soap Manufacturer Vincent Price's double-ornothing program week after week, letting his winnings pile up with the plan of taking over the whole $40-million soap company. When the alarmed hucksters try to give him what he has already won and get rid of him, a hero-loving public refuses to buy any soap unless he keeps going...