Word: programing
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...Influence." The Big Blow moaned around Harry Truman's platform. No plank in it had been more loudly and insistently proclaimed than his plank on civil rights. An FEPC bill had been on the Senate calendar since October 1949. Scott Lucas had scheduled FEPC second on the legislative program this year (first: repeal of the oleo tax). Instead, Harry Truman and his Senate leader had let one bill after another run ahead...
...first shipload of U.S. arms to reach Italy under the U.S. Military Assistance Program approached its wharf last week, Naples was prepared for anything. But when the Exilona finally tied up at the pier, nothing happened. Communist organizers called on all Italian workers to strike forthwith. Six trolleycar motormen, five bus drivers, some armament workers and a spaghetti factory obeyed. Two of the bus drivers later changed their minds...
After three days of parlaying, Europe's Christian Democrats, still opposed to Communism, had made slight progress in laying down a program to fight...
This week, after a ticker-tape welcome on lower Broadway and an honorary degree from Columbia University, the debonair salesman of South American democracy embarked on a rugged program of visits. After New York, González planned to see Philadelphia, the TVA, Texas' oilfields and New Orleans...
...Manhattan, NBC-after thinking it over for a year-scheduled a new network program, Watch the World (Sun. 3:30 p.m., NBC-TV), intended to counteract some of TV's blood-&-thunder children's shows. Dedicated to current events, United Nations, developments in the arts & sciences and other worthy projects, Watch the World has been heavily plugged by educators. Facing the impossibility of keeping small fry from watching TV, RCA Board Chairman David Sarnoff said: "The important thing now is how to use the medium of television affirmatively for children...