Word: canceled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Though network religious programs (for which radio time is given free) are much better than most local religious broadcasts, the Chicago survey has two criticisms of them also: 1) local stations often cancel the free time when they can get paying customers ("Throughout the autumn of 1941 ... no NBC station in the Chicago area carried Dr. Fosdick-he was crowded off the air in favor of professional Sunday football"); 2) "too many" of the network programs come from Manhattan...
Catherine Littlefield had to cancel a two-month ballet tour because she had chosen "big, brawny and masculine" dancers for the troupe. The armed forces and war industries got eight of them...
...main factor in bringing on plans for the bulletin," stated Miller. "We had to cancel our trip to central Peru when we had Lowell Thomas, the American Geographical Society, and perhaps even the Rockefeller Institute interested in it. Now we're going to attempt to keep up interest for future members by putting out the bulletin...
...Reports from Ottawa said that Canada would cancel Britain's war materials debt, more than $1,000,000,000, as a token of unity...
...commission's program is described by its chairman, the Archbishop of York, as "a conscious and deliberate attempt to cancel the divorce between theology and economics." Its avowed aim is to create an economy of abundance with "the interest of the consumer . . . the chief regulator of production...