Word: programming
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...runs he will get the Stalinazi vote. . . . Dewey has no program, foreign or domestic, except that little Tommy wants to be President...
Hoover. To people everywhere in the world last week, men of experience looked good, and even Herbert Hoover, looked a little better. Mr. Hoover, in a broadcast from New York, drew three lessons from the past: 1) experts in manufacturing, industry, labor, transportation, agriculture are essential in a procurement program; 2) board, councils, committees are worthless: one man must control industrial production; 3) politicians must be kept out of the defense pie. Stressing unity of purpose, Mr. Hoover underlined economic regeneration of the U. S. as a prime defense requirement...
Three years ago Adman Raymond Ritchie Morgan approached James Folger of San Francisco, with the rummage sale notion-"the hottest idea I've hit in years"-to sell Mr. Folger's coffee. Coffeeman Folger was impressed when one of the first items disposed of on the program was Mr. Folger's speed boat ($800). The following year, when the air time was expanded to 15 minutes over CBS station KNX, the telephone response put the Hollywood, Hempstead and Hillside exchanges out of order, burned out the generator which operated the busy signal on one, caused the telephone...
Last winter from Boise, Idaho, a woman set the long-distance buying record by telephoning and money-ordering for a $200 mink coat. Only one phony has been recorded, but last April Fools' Day the program turned down an offer of a .32-calibre revolver from John Bad, later found it bona fide, the seller's full name being Badinovac. One man has been trying unsuccessfully to get $25 for six pairs of breeding bullfrogs and several hundred pollywogs. Another wants to trade a shotgun for a trailer. Biggest item the program has ever tried to sell...
...school of psychiatry. Instead, he wove together the fruitful contributions of biology, physiology, psychology, neurology into a simple, practical, humane science. His method of treatment was clear and direct: he would talk things over with a patient, work out the history of his illness, outline a program of education based on a stable, comforting daily routine and good hard work...