Word: programming
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...brief interruption was a trip to Denver, where he shook hands with all comers at a public reception, made a brief speech, pledging himself to work for: 1) a united people free of class hate; 2) "the rehabilitation of our economic life;" 3) an adequate defense program...
...brief spurt in June had marked time. Last week manufacturers began slowing down to the stockmarket's pace. They realized that the expected U. S. boom is still on the drawing boards. Mass production of arms cannot start until Defense Advisory Commissioner William S. Knudsen guides the program out of its present engineering phase, through the plant and equipment building phases, to the assembly lines-all of which may take from six months to three years...
...Some idea of the production capacity of this country to meet the needs of a defense program may be indicated by the fact that Chrysler Corp. alone could take care of the entire present forward demands of the United States Army for trucks for national defense purposes...
...airplane experts, notably Colonel Lindbergh, on building planes as well as engines. The Administration might count him out, but Henry Ford, ever an individualist, was driving right ahead-just as if an order for 1,000 planes a day were in his hands-on Henry Ford's own program for national defense...
...next autumn, however, Ivor Richards plans an extended program. He and his colleagues have completed a primary text of Basic English for Spanish-speaking peoples which will be published by Houghton Mifflin. They have also completed a first-year primer with a Portuguese text for Brazil. Two of them, Mr. & Mrs. Robert Tucker, left last month for Quito, Ecuador, to establish there a Basic English School and to study the results of next autumn's broadcasts. This school will have a competitor, for there is already a well-subsidized German school in Quito...