Word: auto
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Fully a quarter of the nation's radio listeners are on wheels-and often listening hard for word of road conditions. To get extra mileage from this vast audience, the Mutual Broadcasting System has set up an experimental "auto network" of 31 stations stretching from Buffalo to Miami. Purpose: frequent weather announcements plus advice not only on the best routes but on what local station to tune in for news of conditions on the next leg of a long drive north or south. If the new scheme works out, Mutual plans to extend it to all 450 network affiliates...
...Burbank Daily Review, one of California's smallest dailies (circ. 4,421), came a wire last week from the community's biggest advertisers : Burbank's twelve auto dealers. Complaining that the paper's "continued headlining" of recession news "induces retrenching of possible buyers," the telegram from Burbank's Automobile Dealers Association announced that members were canceling their ad contracts with the paper. Said the wire: "This organization will not compete in advertising on the inside with adverse headlines on the outside." Though the loss of business was a heavy blow, Review Publisher Hoyt Cater, whose...
What's wrong with the auto industry? Since one in seven U.S. workers depends on the auto industry, Detroit's slowdown is largely responsible for the drop in steel and dozens of other important industries, and is one of the prime reasons that the nation's economic recession has gone...
PRESIDENT STAYS BY FIRESIDE AGAIN EISENHOWER GOES FOR AUTO RIDE...
FORD VICTORY in hot 1957 auto sales is official. It nosed out Chevrolet for first time in 22 years...