Word: broadcasts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...years behind crusty old Oscar Edwin Hewitt, Ed Kelly's - and Chicago's - commissioner of public works in the '30s. Oscar, a onetime Chicago Tribune reporter, kept tabs on the popularity of radio programs by the drop-in-city-water-pressure method. The end of a broadcast Joe Louis fight called forth the mightiest efforts of Chicago's Lake Michigan intake stations. Especially if the fight went the route...
...time, it seemed to Transit Radio Inc. like a fine idea. With busloads of hapless passengers as audiences, music-and commercials-could be broadcast in urban buses all over the U.S. The plan was fought by groups of indignant passengers, by newspaper editorials and magazines (notably The New Yorker), all charging that bus broadcasts were an invasion of the bus rider's privacy. Last year the company won a favorable Supreme Court decision and thought its troubles were over. But the bus-riding public and the nation's advertisers combined to overrule the Supreme Court...
...Said the broadcast: ". . . To all brave pilots who wish to free themselves from the Communist yoke and start a new, better life with proper honor . . . you are guaranteed refuge, protection, human care and attention. If pilots so desire, their names will be kept secret forever . . ." Escaping pilots were told to fly at 20,000 feet to Paengnyong Island off Korea's west coast, lower their wheels, waggle their wings. U.N. pilots, they were promised, would escort them to Kimpo Airfield, near Seoul...
...says Duggan, he was fired again. Thousands of Duggan fans again phoned, wired and wrote their protests, but this time NBC stiffly announced that it had "terminated the services of Mr. Thomas Duggan because of his failure to adhere to . . . standard operating policies. This policy requires all material for broadcast to be cleared in advance...
Italians always make more of a fuss over U.S. dignitaries than any other, but Mrs. Luce's was "the biggest reception any American ambassador ever got," cabled the New York Daily News. The Italian national radio network broadcast her ar rival speech; all but the extremist press carried her picture on Page One, and the weekly Epoca published five pages and 27 pictures...