Word: programing
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...Nielsen's Audimeters indicate what programs radio and TV sets are tuned to. BBC surveys, besides counting the audience, tell how listeners like each program. U.S. pollsters make no attempt to gather audience reactions...
...nothing, President Truman raised the question again of universal training. He left out the "military," as he always does in discussing the ticklish subject. To the convention of National Guardsmen the President said: "Eight times I have asked the Congress, since I have been President, for a universal training program for the young men of the United States...
Instead of U.M.T.-U.M.S. Presumably he would ask again for such a program. But U.M.T. at best was a questionable solution to the problem. The softhearted U.M.T. bill now in Congress requires six months of basic training in a so-called National Security Training Corps. The trainee, scrupulously protected during his powder-puff training from the dread (to politicians) prospect that he might take on the rough cast of the regular soldier, would have several choices on graduation: 1) six more months of N.S.T.C. training (during which he would not be used in combat), 2) enlistment in the regular armed...
...missiles for the armed forces. K. T. (for Kaufman Thuma) Keller will keep his job at Chrysler, work three days a week without pay as special adviser to Defense Secretary George Marshall. The job was created because the Army, Navy and Air Force each had its own guided-missiles program, and they had long been tangled in overlapping, petty secrecies and inefficiency...
General line officer commissions are open to students who have had two full courses in Mathematics and one in Physics. 1-A draft eligibles may enter the program only if they have already received their diplomas. Such graduates will go on active duty immediately after training...