Word: programming
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...month by next January, 3,000 monthly by April 1942. But the industry also has Britain's orders to think about. Fortnight ago Defense Commissioner Knudsen prophesied that the U. S. would have built 33,000 aircraft by April 1942 (July 1942 is deadline for the defense air program). But no one actually knows how many planes the U. S. can make in that time...
...guns are tougher. It takes a year just to make the tools for some big ones, another 15-18 months to get finished guns. In World War I the U. S. didn't send enough field pieces to France to put in its eye. In its present program it will be lucky if it turns them out in quantity before the spring...
Mindful of this inherent slowness. Bill Knudsen has placed every gun contract his program calls for but one. The cost (with ammunition): $995,836,660. More depressing is the machine-gun outlook. Colt, the only U. S. builder, is working almost full time for the British. Three General Motors plants are tooling up to plug the gap, but quantity production of machine guns is a year to 14 months away. The Army is now getting 2,000 Garand semi-automatic rifles a week, confidently expects 5,000 weekly by Jan. 1, 1941, but at that rate it would require four...
...Mexican politics of Communist domination. Avila Camacho had already matched General Almazán's other claims to conservatism by guaranteeing security to both Mexican and foreign investors, announcing himself a good Catholic. He was now in a position to match Almazán's program point for point, could offer the further inducement of accomplishing it without revolution...
...fellow zanies is Allen's ability to concoct his own jokes. Most of them depend on gagmen for their wit. Allen writes much of his show himself, decisively edits the contributions of his two assistant scripteurs. Practically unchanged this season will be the formula that carried his program along on NBC. In his dry, unhappy, singsong drawl, Allen will still handle 60% of the dialogue, manage, between musical pauses, to give his own news of the week, interview unexpected guests, preside over the dramatic doings of the Mighty Allen Art Players. For his famed ad libs a few minutes...