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With well-paced acts, some high-level ad-lib talk and a genial approach, This Is Broadway last week was one of the first of the summer TV sustaining shows to nab a fall sponsor-AVCO's Crosley Division (radios & TV sets). Though gratified by the windfall, Fadiman (who had been against the serious approach from the beginning) had urged all along that Broadway be changed from an hour-long show to its present 30 minutes. "One thing about this show," he once mused, "it's delightfully improvable...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: My Trouble Is . . . | 9/5/1949 | See Source »

Flying High. Victor Emanuel's Avco Manufacturing Corp. (radios, farm implements, airplane engines) chalked up $6,960,658 in profits, highest in its 19-year history...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: STATE OF BUSINESS: Facts & Figures, Mar. 8, 1948 | 3/8/1948 | See Source »

...aviation interests, including a general manufacturing plant (stoves, frozen food storage units, etc.) in Nashville, Tenn., and part ownership of the ACF-Brill Motors Co. They will be incorporated in a new company, the Nashville Corp. By the deal, Convair's present parent, Victor Emanuel's Avco Manufacturing Corp., will get the controlling interest in the new company. Floyd Odium's Atlas Corp., Convair's second biggest stockholder, will take control of the aviation properties...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: STATE OF BUSINESS: Facts & Figures, Nov. 17, 1947 | 11/17/1947 | See Source »

...goal is still the same as it was 16 years ago: an empire. He tried once, with USEPCO, and failed. This time, with AVCO, he is sure he will...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CORPORATIONS: Everything, Inc. | 10/7/1946 | See Source »

...AVCO now makes: radio equipment, FM & television sets, refrigerators, gas & electric stoves, frozen-food storage units, automatic garage-door openers, farm tools, military and commercial aircraft, buses, marine, industrial, bus, and aircraft engines, heating and boiler units, machine tools & dies, kitchen sinks and cabinets...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CORPORATIONS: Everything, Inc. | 10/7/1946 | See Source »

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