Word: programming
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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People were astounded to hear early last week that not one single fighting airplane was even on order as a result of the new emergency defense program. But by week's end thousands of planes-about 4,200-were almost on order. This progress was no thanks to the elected statesmen of the people. They were still trying to make up their minds on rules about profits and taxes and other political jackstraws...
...personnel upped from 62 to 90, $4,500 in the till to pay the difference between Guardsmen's camp pay and their regular salaries. At Joseph Hogan's private airport, excavation work was under way to turn it into a military field for the civil aeronautics training program. Awaiting only a Government go-ahead signal were 400 unemployed young men to take initial courses in shop and foundry work and advanced technical skills...
...Japanese bridled. "If the British take Japan for a sucker," warned Asahi in the wrong national idiom, "they will find it is their own necks they are stretching out." Two more Britons were arrested. Foreign Office Spokesman Yakichiro Suma rejected the British protest. The Cabinet issued its program, which revolved around a new but strangely reminiscent phrase: Greater East Asia (incorporating Indo-China, The Netherlands Indies, possibly Burma, in Japan's sphere of action). Foreign Minister Yosuke Matsuoka warned: "The Japanese Government is through with toadying...
...secret was it that unofficial U. S. promises of economic aid had much to do with swinging other countries into line behind the Hull program. Back of the diplomatic front in Havana had worked sever al men who held the strings of the U. S. moneybags: President Milo Randolph Perkins of the Federal Surplus Commodities Corp., Earl N. Bressman, economic adviser to Secretary of Agriculture Henry Agard Wallace, young Paul H. Nitze, adviser to President Roosevelt's $10,000-a-year cartelman, James Vincent Forrestal...
...than Hitler), is the first picture presented to the U. S. by James Roosevelt. Globe Productions, in which Jimmy is associated with onetime Universal Executive Henry Henigson, has a franchise to distribute pictures through United Artists. Its next release will be Pot o' Gold (based on the radio program), being produced in Hollywood by a Rumanian-born quickie expert. Samuel Bronston...