Word: programing
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...Richard W. Porter, head of "Project Hermes," as G.E. calls its rocket program with Army Ordnance, feels that the German lead has been overcome. The G.E. rocket motors, some of which were static-tested spectacularly for the visitors, are about 10% more efficient than the motors of the V-25. They are smaller for the equivalent power, and they burn commercially pure alcohol instead of the alcohol mixed with 25% water that the Germans used to hold down the heat of combustion. The improvements, Dr. Porter believes, will show up in payload-the ultimate payoff of rocketry. G.E. does...
Said Dr. O'Brien: "Let us have the honesty to accept the futility of our present methods alone, and the courage to embark immediately on a program of extensive BCG vaccinations, without which tuberculosis will present the same problems a thousand years from now as it does today. Unless we use vaccination as in smallpox and diphtheria, there is, in my opinion, no hope...
Listening Audience. In Oroville, Calif., while alone at home listening to a radio program on painless childbirth, Mrs. Joyce Chapman gave unheralded and painless birth to her first child...
...guaranteed price of $50 each for these rockers. In the event we are unable to sell all of them, we will arrange to burn them right here at the factory rather than go to the expense of shipping them somewhere else to be destroyed . . . I realize that [our rocker program] will be small potatoes . . . but perhaps you can start a new bureau or something to raise the ante and get it into the billion-dollar bracket . . . We are eager to get the Government checks rolling...
...main complaint against the whole program is the poor publicity it has received at all stages. First, it was consistently advertised as a messenger service, causing a lot of misunderstanding. Second, there was no notification sent to many people who had been fined, except that the worst offenders were called in for conferences at the library. This meant that offenders who might have become more punctual if they knew they were being fined, were in the dark until term bills came...