Word: cbs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Frank Earl Mason, onetime president of Hearst's International News Service, applied wire service methods to the long distance telephone, got fast, adequate coverage of big news for his chain. Columbia went at it somewhat more elaborately, organized a system of correspondents in the 90 cities dotted by CBS stations...
Congratulations are due CBS. Edwin K. Cohan, technical chief of the chain, on vacation in Miami, reversed loops to New York, offered President-elect Roosevelt use of Columbia facilities, obtained a statement from him for the radio audience, secured an authentic witness, canceled New York broadcasts interfering, notified stations, announced the broadcast in record time for network alignment...
...many prints of ships had been carefully packed and dispatched to Washington in Army trucks, along with trunks of clothes, boxes of books, bales of papers, crates of furniture, cases of knicknacks. Also sent to the Capital was a bulletproof broadcasting lectern donated by CBS to protect him from thighs to shoulders. Mrs. Henry Nesbitt, a Hyde Park neighbor, had been engaged as White House housekeeper and her husband, a lusty Irishman who used to sell whale oil, was to be custodian of the executive offices. Because she was so quick at detecting important voices, Miss Louise Hachmeister of Manhattan...
...hours later Manager Mizer retrieved some of his lost ground by broadcasting over a large CBS hookup an eyewitness account of the attack...
...will receive your money back many times, I am sure, and CBS will at least have the comfort of knowing that a lot of radios will once more arouse from a state of inactivity at least once a week, which may help to get them back in the habit...