Word: programming
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...shipping policy? Since the golden days of clipper ships the U. S. has never had a consistent shipping policy. Nor was it settled by the Maritime Act of 1936, for, as Mr. Kennedy points out, there are still three alternatives: 1) continuation of the subsidy program, which promises to bog down for lack of private capital, 2) Government ownership and private operation, or 3) straight Government ownership and operation. In other great maritime nations the course for Government domination of shipping is clearly charted. Mr. Kennedy seems to feel without saying so that a merchant marine, being today essentially...
What will it cost? In the past 20 years the U. S. Government spent $3,800,000,000 on the merchant marine. "We have come today to the end of our once-magnificent armada. Of the 2,500 vessels launched in the mightiest shipbuilding program in history but a few hundred aging specimens remain." Operating subsidies alone may mount under the present law to $15,000,000 or $20,000,000 per year. With luck and $50,000,000 of taxpayers' money solvent lines may launch 65 ships in the next five years. At the moment, the Commission...
Presiding over his radio program of incredibilities, Robert Leroy Ripley beckoned to the microphone a tubby lyric tenor who had played obscure cinema parts. Listeners heard a thin voice with forced higher registers pour out "O Pari-diso" from L'Africaine, one of the favorite arias of the late great Enrico Caruso. Announced Mr. Ripley: "You have just heard the voice of Enrico Caruso Jr.- believe...
...program in Manhattan were 27 novelists, 18 critics, ten poets, 19 journalists and political commentators, ten scientific writers, three authors of travel books, two biographers, four preachers, six publishers, four authors of garden books, one artist, 28 assorted authors and illustrators of children's books, one humorist, one cabinet member, one university chancellor and one ranee...
Michael Karpovitch, assistant professor of History, will speak tonight on the subject "Russia: Twenty Years After" in the ninth of the series of radio broadcasts sponsored by the Harvard Guardian. The program will be carried by WAAB at 7:30 o'clock...