Word: programming
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...Congress in September 1938 had taken immediate steps to carry out my proposed defense program it is conceivable that Hitler would not have extinguished Czechoslovakia and attacked Poland in 1939. And even if he had undertaken these aggressions it is unlikely that the Nazi war machine could have smashed Allied resistance on the continent. For under those circumstances the Allies doubtlessly would have received an unlimited supply of American airplanes, tanks and munitions in the spring...
...some of these festivals, which are designed to soothe rather than to stimulate, the musicians loll through the program like their audience. Not so the musicians of the impeccable Boston Symphony, who, under the fastidious baton of Serge Koussevitzky, delicately perform each year a carefully chosen sheaf of symphonies for visitors and tourists at Stockbridge in Massachusetts' Berkshire Hills. In & around an acoustically perfect, wedge-shaped $80,000 pavilion (called with New England sobriety a "Music Shed"), which rises on the greensward at Tanglewood, where Nathaniel Hawthorne once wrote, visiting Boston Brahmins and socialites, whether lying down or sitting...
Before the word "Go" had echoed over the Orange County hills, the leaders were passing the stands, their program numbers stuck in their manes like Court of St. James's plumes. Queen Victoria was in front, followed by big Remus, tallest trot ter (17.2 hands) on U. S. tracks and little Kuno, last year's two-year-old champion. As they rounded the first turn of the three-cornered track, all Goshen shook with a mighty roar. Spencer Scott, the favorite, began to move up on the outside...
...William Vincent Hazen took Marian Padelford, 19, to be his lawful wedded wife. A dental technician, Bridegroom Hazen planned to celebrate his marriage vows with a script of his own devising. It included such dialogue as "My future plans are of educating the public in the immense perennial humanitarian program that the dental profession has mapped out for those who will but come to its portals. All of which bounteously builds up to better dentistry for better living. Marian, I've loved you from the day I first met you. Will you share it with...
...made possible today's silent automobile gears. Swasey also im proved brass-working machines and turret lathes. W. & S. now makes 60% of all U. S. turret lathes. Widely used to turn out other machine tools, the W. & S. turret lathe is at the heart of the defense program...