Word: programing
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...Worked full steam ahead on a bill setting up a $3.1 billion program for civilian defense...
...more traditional fashion, through the regular Cabinet departments. So far in 1950, there are no home-front czars and caliphs grinding out firm and final decrees to a wage-stabilized, price-controlled, rationed public. But there is also a noticeable absence of vigor and purpose in the U.S. mobilization program, and in most of the men running it; there are no Charles E. Wilsons, "Bull" Jeffers, Bill Knudsens. These are the men who have been trying to catch up to galloping reality with a creeping mobilization...
...after darkness fell, complications set in. A reporter checked on the Earl's conclusion that he had been married by the judge-and found it false. A radio station gleefully put the news on the air. Mrs. Rose Musette, owner of the tourist camp, heard the program, narrowed her eyes, and called the State Patrol. The cops diplomatically called the British Consulate...
...Twenty-two Chicago ministers organized an "eleventh hour, prayer-for-peace vigil," managed to draw only a few dozen people into the chapel where it was held. But after Disc Jockey Martin Block put a rabbi, a priest and a Protestant minister on his program for 15 minutes of prayer for peace, he was able to announce that the switchboard at Manhattan's station WNEW "lit up like a Christmas tree...
...Georgetown one evening last week, wealthy Mrs. Alf Heiberg, whose second husband of four was General Douglas MacArthur, sat listening to a radio program on civil defense. The longer Mrs. Heiberg listened, the more alarmed she became. The next morning she scouted Washington, D.C. and found a contractor who could build her a bomb shelter with thick walls and heavy lead doors. Explained Mrs. Heiberg: "After all, if they attacked Washington I'm sure they'd aim a bomb at a former wife of General MacArthur, so I'm going to try to be prepared." Mrs. Heiberg...