Word: programming
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...vital to U. S. security confirmed this view. Alone, said Major Eliot, the U. S. Fleet cannot control the Atlantic, must therefore prolong British resistance and if possible keep the British Fleet in being. On these tenets he laid down in the New York Herald Tribune a nine-point program of immediate action...
...thinkers played the title roles in a new NBC show called the Quiz Kids, sponsored by Alka-Seltzer. Standing up under a fierce grilling on mythology, ornithology, spelling, music, breeds of dogs, the Chicago prodigies left listeners awed with the scope of their learning, a trifle doubtful that the program was entirely unrehearsed. Snorted Variety: "If Alka-Seltzer is as remarkable for a hangover as these smarties, then the cure-all of the century comes in a long glass tube." Last week once again the Quiz Kids went through their paces, sounded just as knowing as they had before...
...parents on the Dalmatian coast. Last week Rodzinski and the New York Philharmonic-Symphony gave Challenge 1040 its first performance, in a concert which brought 13,000 people to the open-air Lewisohn Stadium in Manhattan. The concert was dedicated to Democracy. Aside from two democratic Czech pieces, the program was 100% American. It made good listening...
...capacity in the controversial domain of TVA, which sought and got a new hydro plant (90,000 kilowatts) and a new steam plant (120,000 kilowatts), plus transmission facilities and generators, all to cost $65.000,000. These will give TVA 25% more capacity (by 1942) than its normal building program...
...obligations arising out of any national defense problems. . . . This will require as never before the use of all resources of capital and man power. . . . We will use them fully." Utilitarian Shea laid on the line a $29,000,000 addition to a $61,000,000 construction program announced in January. The new items: 60,000 kilowatts for Cleveland, 50,000 for Washington...