Word: programming
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...sure, the collectivization program in the Ukraine resulted in a famine which cost not less than 3,000,000 lives in 1932. It was a Stalin-made famine. The number of wrecks and industrial accidents became prodigious. Soviet officials laid it to sabotage. More likely they were due more to too rapid industrialization. Millions in penal colonies were forced into slave labor...
...Star put ashore relief supplies, which she would replenish in New Zealand; her two doctors treated almost a quarter of the population for ailments, ranging from scratches to scurvy; her machinists and radio operators went over the island's radio receiver. Biggest treat of all: a long cinema program in the North Star's saloon. The audience, most of whom had never seen films before, cried out in amazement at shots of Manhattan. Next day, when the North Star's forward donkeys upped anchor and the screws began to turn, the natives stood up in their longboats...
...Buddhist wheel of life, took the name of Chao Kung. He made a trip to Germany (where he was jailed for an old debt), later accumulated some white followers, kept on the move. In 1938, he turned up again in Shanghai, with a beard and a new program. He was now for Japan, or, as he blandly put it: "I am still pro-Chinese and therefore pro-Japanese...
...year career that she has ever played in a radio show. They say she has turned down $3,000,000 in radio offers. They say she might have had $35,000 had she chosen to make her debut Christmas Eve with Charlie McCarthy on the Chase and Sanborn program. But for her radio coming-out, she got not so much as a lollipop...