Word: programming
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...within. There was a sense of strain around the White House, where the President issued a proclamation broadening his emergency powers (see p. 9); around the State Department, as rumors of peace moves came from Europe (see p. 25); around the War Department, where the Army's mechanization program was intensified (see p. 19); in the Navy Department, where tight-lipped officers turned aside questions about the movements of the U. S. Fleet...
...civilization is defeated, it will be because of its own moral disintegration. . . . The objective before us is crystal clear. We must mobilize all our resources for the strengthening of our democratic system and for powerful de fense against the bloodthirsty brutalitarians. . . . Equally important and equally indispensable is an immediate program for the economic rehabilitation of our twelve million unemployed whose morale is shattered and whose allegiance to democracy is tenuous because the hungry and the hopeless fail to see what they are called upon to defend. . . . We rabbis must do more than echo the despair and perplexities of our people...
...early career on the air, The Missus Goes to Market opened 10,000 new outlets for Automatic Soap Flakes. Similarly successful, Meet the Missus has attracted a million requests for a card game advertised on the program, and pulls 3,000 letters a week. Reveling in his success with the matrons, young Tommie Bartlett earns $22,000 a year, lives handsomely in a duplex apartment on Lake Shore Drive. A feature of almost every berry, corn and apple festival around Chicago, Bachelor Tommie has so far received 20 proposals of marriage, inherited $5,000 from one mike-struck listener...
Last week the U. S. rearmament program was still largely in the blueprint stage. But up & down the economy, certain factories, from steel to handkerchiefs, were beginning to stir to the increasing drum roll of orders, real and promised...
...accept sacrifice prices in order to clear their books of doubtful "assets" in foreclosed property. From January through May, unloaded Manhattan properties had plummeted from 80.6% to 73.3% of their assessed values. (Yet New York State Superintendent of Insurance Louis H. Pink, "handling the largest real-estate investment liquidation program in the history of this country," declared that 80% of those investing through New York certificate-issuing houses had not lost a cent...