Word: programming
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...addition to helping the students get outside employment, Harvard for the past several years has appropriated $40,000 a year for undergraduate work within the University, as an emergency program. This Temporary Student Employment Plan has supported jobs in various university departments such as the Library, Astronomical Observatory, the Houses and Museums, by which about 150 students a year have earned about $250 each...
...fourth year, Phillips Brooks House will again sponsor an undergraduate faculty program, in which Harvard students will teach subjects they are studying to more than 100 high school students or recent graduates...
...price for stars on the Lux program runs to $5,000 a performance. One hundred and ninety-seven famous performers have appeared in the show to date. Valuable by-product of their visits is a sound-effects drum which all of them have signed. Estimated worth of the drum today is $9,000, and the sound-effects man hates to hit it for fear of ruining autographs. Marlene Dietrich has been almost obliterated from the effects of hurricanes and earthquakes...
Once a week, as a respite from soap operas, NBC offers U. S. womankind a program known as Luncheon at the Waldorf. Broadcast from the Empire Room of Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria, the show is aimed at matrons with better-than-average bankrolls, is as sedulously shallow as a column by Lucius Beebe. Clearly responsible for the tenor of the Luncheon is Actress Ilka Chase, who not only serves as aerial hostess but writes the scripts as well. Last week before a free-feeding audience of 50, Luncheon at the Waldorf was fluttering smartly through its third 13-week...
Last May U. S. business activity ended its minor early 1940 slump, began to turn up. During the summer, as recovery quickened with the defense program, more & more businessmen began increasing their inventory commitments, began thinking about plant expansion. By Labor Day, traditional milepost of the business year, business was rolling along, gathering boom momentum. A few chronic laggards remained behind. One was oil, the victim of a production war between the States. Another was cotton, practically shorn of its export markets, hopelessly overproduced for the market left to it. Another was corn, also export-dependent, whose only records these...