Word: broadcasts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...reinsurance fund to back up non-Government health insurance plans, e.g., Blue Cross and similar organizations. This was an important item: a week before the bill reached the House, Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare Oveta Gulp Hobby, after being introduced by the President, plugged it in a nationwide broadcast from the White House. G.O.P. leaders had expected the bill to pass easily. But when the votes were counted, 162 Democrats, 75 Republicans and Ohio's Independent Frazier Reams had joined in recommitting...
...recent weeks he has pushed his way into Tennessee living rooms with the persistent zeal of a brush salesman. His technique is the marathon radio and television appearance, in which he sits before microphone and camera hour after hour answering questions submitted by listeners. His latest endurance broadcast began in Memphis at 7:30 p.m. one day last week, and ended 27 hours later. He was heard on eight radio and two TV stations, collected $5,500 from sympathetic listeners...
...typical that he should want to know how Smilin' Jack was doing. Famed as a scientist and educator, he carried a heavy load, but no man could have carried it with greater grace or a lighter heart. Last week, in paying tribute to him on a special broadcast from Boston, his successor, James R. Killian Jr., mentioned his achievements only in passing. Far more important to Killian was Compton himself, "emanating goodness and wisdom . . . and engendering a spirit of good will among all coming within his influence...
Some 374 U.S. radio stations now broadcast special programs to sell to Negroes. Some employ Negro disk jockeys to chat about Negro social life and play records (mostly jazz, spirituals and blues) that Negro fans request...
Fiat-Footed Marketeers. In the Far East alone, some $110 million worth was called in. The secret was well kept. To reduce last-minute deals, troops were confined to bases before the news was broadcast, sailors confined to their ships (some thought they were about to be sent to Indo-China). Black-marketeers everywhere were caught flat-footed with thousands, perhaps millions, of dollars worth of MPCs, which turned to worthless paper in their hands...