Word: channelizing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...whole world knows that to these shores came oppressed people from every land under the sun; that here they found homes, jobs, and a stake in a bright, unlimited future ... In every town and village in Europe, from the Ural Mountains to the channel ports, that truth is known ... to the Czech, the Pole, the Hungarian who takes his life in his hands and crosses the frontier tonight-or to the Italian who goes to some American consulate-this ideal that beckoned him can be a mirage because of the McCarran Act. With leadership . . . we should have...
Once the Council had the money, the FCC promised to grant them channel 2, one of the two very high frequency channels allocated to the Boston area. The other was opened to commercial bids. The Council, which includes Harvard, five other universities, the Boston Symphony, the Museum of Fine Arts, and the New England Conservatory, hopefully cast about for money. Its first touches were naturally the foundations; all refused, although they still keep the issue under consideration...
...Council is safe from the commercial interests at least until June of 1953, when the F.C.C. will lift the channel freeze. Another force, however, may take over. Governor Paul A. Dever has announced the appointment of a committee to investigate the need for government intervention in the field of educational television...
Carefully guarded, limited state control can push educational television over its initial and most difficult problem. Otherwise, the Council will soon be handing over channel 2 to Hoppy and the Space Cadets...
Island Rescue starts off like an Alec Guinness movie, makes a brief attempt to stimulate some young love, and winds up on a tight little Channel Island populated by "simple" fishermen, German soldiers (most of whom are named Vogel) and Venus...