Word: programming
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...planes. To this sum it was expected he would ask Congress to add $25,000,000. It would be used to purchase and store strategic minerals such as zinc, chromium, manganese and tin and to buy coffee, rubber and other tropical products under a $100,000,000 four-year program which would bring total expenditures for national defense close to $2,000,000.000. No opposition was expected, as there has been no opposition to any of the record-breaking peacetime appropriations for national defense...
After the ceremonies, there was a conference. Franz Ferdinand wanted to send Sophie home and go on with his program. Sophie refused to go. An officer suggested that they go to the Governor's residence. "Do you think Sarajevo is full of assassins?" was General Potiorek's squelcher. Finally the Archduke decided to scrap the program which would have taken him to the town museum and to drive straight back to visit his wounded aide in the hospital. As Franz Ferdinand and Sophie again entered their car (see cut, right), he was informed that Chabrinovitch had been collared...
Franz Ferdinand stopped the procession, surveyed the damage, ordered his wounded aide driven quickly to the hospital. Meanwhile Chabrinovitch jumped over the embankment. The Archduke, more disgusted than frightened by this bucolic attempt on his life, said: "Come on. The fellow is crazy. Let us proceed with our program." A board was put over the fragments in the street, a, policeman stood on it to keep peasants from prying, and the three remaining cars drove on to the Town Hall. So the incident ended...
...stations writing to headquarters for information, the N. A. B. last week was busy explaining its position that both civil liberty and capitalism are "controversial" topics, and therefore dynamite. Its suggestions: 1) have the A. C. L. U. program read by a local A. C. L. U. member as a speech, not as "news"; 2) be sure to identify Orator Sokolsky's sponsor, to avoid letting his views seem to be those of the station...
...Wheeling Steel program is Little Steel's most ambitious radio venture. In the broadcasts, products like Cop-R-Loy pipe and Ductillite tin plate get a mention, but the main idea is to make the U. S.' public pals with Wheeling Steel. A far more ingratiating ambassador for Little Steel than Tom Girdler, the Wheeling Steel half-hour is also an economical adventure in employe participation. The employes boom the company's products and hence help along their own prosperity But judged by other half-hour musical shows, many of which cost as much...