Word: add
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Work behind the scenes in a half-million dollar enterprise, trips to Philadelphia, Princeton and Hanover with the Freshman and Varsity football teams, and the award of Major numerals, all add incentive to the annual Freshman managerial competition which gets off to a flying start with an introductory meeting at the Varsity Club on Monday, September 29, at 1:30 o'clock...
...preachers' saddlebags were a valued source of reading matter. Every minister was also a subscription agent, and by 1830 the Methodist Christian Advocate had the largest circulation of any U.S. periodical -30,000 (its 1941 circulation: 275,000). It grew so rapidly that the post office had to add extra wagons to carry the Advocate's mailings from New York...
Mutual Broadcasting System is seven years old this month, and a happy birthday it will be. Mutual will add two more NBC stations to its chain. The Federal Communications Commission's antimonopoly hearings which begin in Washington this week will not mar the youngest network's celebration, will probably be a sick headache for rivals CBS and NBC. Mutual's position is dandy. As a cooperative, it has little to fear from FCC's projected chain-busting...
Shortly after it was organized, MBS attracted WLW in Cincinnati, went on to add John Shepard Ill's Colonial network and the Don Lee network on the West Coast to its chain. Big recommendation for Mutual with advertisers was the fact that it insisted only on the purchase of its three big units, WOR, WGN, WLW, with other units to be added at pleasure. Not until June 1936 did it reach a coast-to-coast status. That occurred when CBS offered to buy the Don Lee network, which turned to cooperative Mutual instead...
...every dollar's worth of copper it got, the industry would pay out $10.80 in payrolls, add $20.37 of value. Moreover, its fasteners went to 100 other industries (clothing, footwear, luggage, etc.), to 20,000 manufacturers with 250,000 employes...