Word: air
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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During four days of testimony in an air-cooled Federal courtroom, zealous Arthur Morgan repeated and amplified the charges he made against TVA Directors Harcourt A. Morgan and David E. Lilienthal last March. He made it clear that: 1) from the beginning in 1933 he was the only one of TVA's directors who was in step, 2) Franklin Roosevelt was fully informed of the Morgan v. Morgan & Lilienthal rift from its inception, but did nothing about it until Arthur Morgan publicly exploded. Beyond that, Arthur Morgan flooded and occasionally bored the committee with details in support...
...with 320 gallons of gasoline, apparently headed for home to get his nickel back. But instead of heading West, the blind nose of his old ship aimed East, picked up the Lindbergh trail. Year before he had applied for permission to attempt an ocean night, but the Bureau of Air Commerce cracking down on stunt flying, refused...
...receiving end, NBC, CBS, MBS pricked up their radio ears, stayed on the air all night, vied for scoops. CBS estimated total costs for its coverage of the flight between $15,000 and $20,000. NBC made an estimate of $12,000, not including talent costs for sustaining programs between Hughesflashes. MBS did the job for $1,500, playing records during the spare time...
When radio first went Hollywood, microphone men were glad to put any Hollywoodian on the air any time. Cinema was glad to get the publicity. But soon radio found big money in Hollywood broadcasts, and the radio-cinema honeymoon was over. Last week cinemagnates were shown emphatically that radio is through with giving them anything for the asking. Stations KFI and KECA (NBC's Los Angeles affiliates) refused to donate time for broadcasting the world premiere of Marie Antoinette from Hollywood's Carthay Circle, demanded that M-G-M pay regular commercial rates for the air time...
...Sister Eileen, 26-year-old Ruth McKenney harks back to that happy period with the air of a mellow oldster. Originally published in The New Yorker, the 14 sketches in My Sister Eileen give a cloudy picture of Eileen, a clearer view of Ruth herself, a better account of girlish misadventures during elocution lessons, bird studies in a girls' camp, a correspondence with a French boy in a high-school class in French, the embarrassments of waiting on table in a Fred Harvey lunchroom, interviews for a college paper...