Word: programming
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...that could create them. In a fury of frustration they jumped on each other, developed morbid fears of invisible enemies, chased ghosts and phantoms, looked backward to bemoan old mistakes and ancient blunders. Greater sign of weakness was that-though no longer was a crisis doubted-no great national program came into being that could give each man his place in a giant effort, give a creative release to pent-up emotions...
...final acceptance of the fact that whatever policy the U. S. followed meant risk. In Emporia, Kans., Editor William Allen White did what few observers of Midwest sentiment believed possible a fortnight ago: organized a Committee to Defend America by Aiding the Allies. Editor White's program: all possible legal aid short of armed force...
...shortage of plane-manufacturing equipment, three trainloads of precision tools, dies, and machines for making airplane motors passed through Washington, Russia-bound. Equally confusing was it that, after 3,500 American Youth Congress members in their New York convention had booed President Roosevelt's defense program, Mrs. Roosevelt addressed the brattish assembly, with kindly reproof. Snorted testy Columnist Frank Kent: "In view of the striking record of hostility toward the Dies Committee of the Department of Justice, the President and the President's wife, to say nothing of the extraordinary White House coddling of such Communist-saturated organizations...
...meet and overcome. Aircraft excepted, about all the Franklin Roosevelt's initial estimates could do was provide what the Army thought it needed before Hitler's mechanized hordes changed the modern definition of war. "I don't think we ought to deceive ourselves that this program goes very far," said the Army's Colonel Harry K. Rutherford. Said the independent but authoritative Army & Navy Journal, ". . . the results will still leave us, a year and a half hence, far behind the fighting forces of the European nations...
...step up naval construction (the Navy last fortnight estimated that, for $171,000,000 more than original costs, its construction program could be completed...