Word: programming
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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What's Wrong? Who was holding up the defense program - capital or labor? -was a question many a citizen could not answer to his own satisfaction...
...Army Air Corps. It was plain in the formal, written protest (later swallowed) of President John G. Pew of Sun Shipbuilding & Dry Dock Co. that his company could not answer charges of unfair labor practice, and at the same time go ahead with a $69,000,000 Navy building program. It was plain in the demand of Defense Commissioner Sidney Hillman that Henry Ford settle his differences with labor (before a final decision by the Supreme Court) or go without a $2,000,000 contract for Army automobiles...
...Program of Naziism. But the war is not yet won. Do not think that Hitler and Nazidom are going to be easily overthrown. Hitler is certainly going to make another attempt next year-and earlier rather than later-to beat down our resistance by new methods and still greater violence, and so open the way to world domination for the Nazis...
Benign-looking old General James Barry Munnik Hertzog resigned as Prime Minister of South Africa at war's outbreak because Parliament rejected his proposal to keep the Union neutral. Last month he resigned as leader of the Reunited Nationalist Party because the party rejected his program of independence for the Union. Last week, no longer a voice but only a squeak in South African politics, 74-year-old General Hertzog resigned his seat in Parliament, retired from politics to devote the rest of his life to "loyal service to the people...
Pink-cheeked, scholarly, hard-working President Henning W. Prentis Jr. (Armstrong Cork) expressed the uncertainty in his keynote speech. Pledging industry's support to the defense program, he granted that industry could produce more than it has "if we are, in the opinion of Government, faced with emergency war production." Then, like a Labor M.P. confronting Churchill, he asked the Government to define its defense aims...