Word: broadcast
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Specter. Could the U.S. do more than it was doing? Back to Washington came Herbert Hoover, after a 35,000-mile tour through 25 food-short countries. After reporting to the President, he broadcast to the nation what he had seen: "The grimmest specter of famine in all the history of the world. . . . Hunger hangs over the homes of 800,000,000 people . . . over one-third of the people of the earth...
...Scheduled for broadcast on an NBC hookup, it was heard no farther than Asheville's auditori um. Just after the A.F. of L. president had been introduced, someone snipped circuit wires in a basement spot only 20 feet from where the Asheville Chamber of Commerce was serving corn likker to the press...
...room Brown Hotel, Louisville's largest, has turned down an average of 1,000 room requests a week for the past two months. Louisville's Police Chief A. E. Kimberling broadcast a nationwide warning: "Stay home unless you're the rugged outdoor type." In Manhattan dailies, an airline advertised direct flights to the Derby...
...claimed another triumph last week: network color television had been tested and proved. Using the Bell System coaxial cable, CBS had broadcast a Technicolor movie short and color slides from Manhattan to Washington (225 miles) and return...
...first time, John Brown's Body was broadcast in England last week. The dramatization of Stephen Vincent Benét's Pulitzer-prize poem filled an hour and a half over the BBC, but it was worth it. Britons heard an eloquent adaptation by an American: Joel O'Brien, former assistant to Norman Corwin. In the background was a remarkable musical score by 24-year-old British Composer Arthur Oldham. Even his original Negro spirituals, set to Benét's words and inspired by listening to Hall Johnson records, sounded authentic. To Britons...