Word: programing
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...matter how well braced he was for the new defense program, John Citizen was going to be hard put not to emit at least one wild and profane cry when he got the word. Best Washington guess at the next national budget: approximately $73 billion, or $20 billion more than this year...
...warned the Soviet Premier that the U.S. was not to be fooled with, that it could carry on a long rearmament program without economic collapse, that U.S. Communists could not undermine its strength, and that U.S. youth-no matter how much they hated war-would not back out of a fight...
...operate only at 60% of capacity). ECA officials were worried about Italy's 1,800,000 unemployed. Above all, they were afraid that Italian industry in its present condition would not be able to do an adequate job of defense production necessary under the Atlantic Pact rearmament program...
Light, Home & Third. A British listener, fiddling with the knobs on his set, can pick up three and sometimes four programs. They come to him, not over competing networks, but on three interrelated radio services called the Light, the Home, and the Third Program. In addition, each of the six regions of Great Britain (the North, Midlands and West of England; Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland) has a BBC station that broadcasts local shows, news and sporting events or programs in Welsh and Gaelic...
Director General Sir William Haley sees the three basic services as a cultural pyramid up which the listener is led "from good to better." Ideally, listeners begin this cultural mountain climb by tuning into the Light Program. As its name implies, the Light is aimed at the great mass of people who would rather listen to Irving Berlin than Johann Sebastian Bach. Of all British radio, it bears the closest resemblance to U.S. network radio. The Light's Mrs. Dale's Diary has some of the flavor and all the popularity of The Aldrich Family; Have...