Word: barely
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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After a lofty resolve to limit advertising to the bare mention of a sponsor's name, radio forgot its good resolution, went after advertising that has multiplied radio's receipts 60 times since 1927. Programming was concentrated in network headquarters, control and responsibility abdicated to a small group of advertisers. Says Siepmann: public service continued to diminish while profits soared. Example: in 1944, radio's net return before taxes ($90,000,000) was more than double the depreciated value of all its tangible property...
Russia's women still found the shops bare, but they could dream. Last week the first issue of Soviet Woman, a kind of proletarian Vogue, went to 20,000 subscribers who paid ten rubles ($2) a copy. It featured a picture spread of evening dresses, furs, fancy shoes, sport clothes. Dress directions were printed in large type, so that the ladies would be able to make their...
...Crimson in its own field has appeared since the Harvard Daily News threw down the gauntlet in the fall of 1894. The incumbent journalists affected to look down their noses at the upstarts, but were effectively put on their mettle by a keen rivalry that was not always bare-faced and above board. Unethical wire-tapping and signs of yellow journalism on the part of the News, however, showed up the following fall when the challengers were blighted by the failure of their subscription drive...
Because in writing Henry V Shakespeare was much hampered by the limitations of his stage, there was heavy work for the one-man Chorus, who, in persuasive and beautiful verbal movies, stirred his audience to imagine scenes and movement which the bare and static Elizabethan stage could not provide...
Thus, last week in Chicago, the Industrial Workers of the World announced that they were still marching on. Amid the cheap nightclubs of the near North Side, in a small, bare room on the third floor of a third-rate office building, the Wobblies-40 strong-held their first convention in seven years...