Word: program
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...This is crazy change-of-the-pocket procedure . . . The United States housing program is in no respect self-liquidating. . . ." He slammed a book down on the well-table so hard it bounced into the lap of grinning Joseph Shannon of Missouri. "My 18-months-old baby will be lucky to live to see one of these contracts consummated...
...Camp, Lycan and Stockwell then turn about and caution their students against slang, thereby making it pretty clear that they do not know 1939 slang from third base. American English gives students some good instruction on how to write different types of prose, address letters and judge a radio program, but even the nice little boys & girls for whom it was written are likely to wonder how Schoolmarms Goddard, Camp, Lycan and Stockwell got so chummy with that old goat, the English language. Sample passage...
Before the radio industry had time to cross its fingers over the President's intentions, he acted. Once more Franklin Roosevelt went outside FCC to pick a chairman. Like Frank McNinch, 41-year-old James Lawrence Fly made his name with the New Deal program. TVA's general counsel since 1937, able Jim Fly won TVA's two major tilts in the Supreme Court. A tall, quiet, hard-working Texan who graduated from Annapolis and spent three years in the Navy before loping through Harvard Law School in two years, Lawyer Fly is a New Dealer...
...steady. Five years ago, Real-estate Dealer Ropp, who is also a painter in his spare time, thought up a final terrific touch: a series of tableaux reproducing famous paintings and sculpture on a picture-frame stage. This year 44 paintings and ten pieces of sculpture are on the program. Its 54 letter-perfect, 90-second blackouts introduced by singers and dancers, separated by orchestral interludes and culminating in da Vinci's Last Supper, have reached a professional pitch of perfection...
...producing the new lignin plastic at the rate of 25 tons a day, has raw materials on hand for a top production of 400 tons daily. Last year the company's net sales were $11,109,000. Last week its officials announced a $1,500,000 expansion program. But Chemist Howard was still scouting ahead. His goal: to establish his new chemical talk-of-the-town as the most important addition to the world's store of raw materials since coal tar and cellulose...