Word: programming
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...President Roosevelt in a message to Federal, State and local officials meeting in Washington to discuss the fifth column urged legislation dealing with "subversive activities, with seditious acts, with those things which slow up or break down our common defense program...
...accepted, said that he did so only at Mr. Stimson's instance, then actually invited Louis Johnson, who could not work under Mr. Stimson, to work over him as a Presidential assistant ("my eyes and ears . . . reporting to me on the continuing progress of the entire national defense program"). Offhand, it did not look as if there were a spot where aggressive Mr. Johnson's talents would be of less use, or where his equal talent for getting in other people's hair would wreak greater havoc with the Defense program...
...Navy's Alaskan program is still greater, likely to cost more, for the Navy's job is to range far to sea and it needs bases for submarines, destroyers, capital ships as well as bases for aircraft. Its big establishment will be at Kodiak which Alaskans hope will eventually be made as strong as Hawaii, 2,600 miles directly south. Far west of Kodiak (and about 900 miles farther west than Hawaii) lies the Navy's outmost listening post, Kiska Island, which can be used as an advance base for air and submarine operations. Closer in toward...
...sound achievement. . . . Few people realize that before actual production can start, months of effort must be expended upon design alone. . . . For instance . . . approximately 2,400 individual drawings are required in the complete design of the light tanks.* . . . The problem of machine tools, which is fundamental to the entire defense program, is another point where . . . it may seem that little or nothing is being done. . . . The kind of work involved does not, of course, attract headlines. Very definite progress is being made. . . . Through the unlimited cooperation of the [machine tool] industry . . . I am able to report that the huge planers...
Broadcasters know just how they stand with McKay via special delivery or airmail after each program. When one of McKay's men goes way off in his score, McKay writes or phones to inquire whether a hangover or domestic trouble has got him down. Almost invariably the man admits one difficulty or the other. To McKay each error is known...