Word: coast-to-coast
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...bright indeed if it keeps expanding. Already approved by CAB is a Chicago-Los Angeles nonstop jet service due to start in mid-1959. Ahead lies pending approval for nonstop Dallas-San Francisco service. Even more ambitious is a possible interchange with Capital Airlines, creating a new coast-to-coast system nearly as big as any of the four big U.S. lines...
FOREIGN RELATIONS People's Mood On the general subject of foreign aid the mood of the American people is far more free-spending than the mood of the U.S. Congress. Just before President Eisenhower proposed his Middle Eastern resolution, the Gallup poll asked coast-to-coast whether the U.S. should or should not keep on spending its recent average of $4 billion a year on foreign aid. Result: in favor, 58%; against, 28%; no opinion, 14%. Pro-foreign aid sentiment, Gallup reported, cut cleanly across party lines-59% of Republicans, 59% of Democrats, 58% of independents...
...Ferrer makes his pitch at a meeting of the network's top brass, throwing them a soft sell, very sincere, about how he would conduct the full hour, coast-to-coast memorial show being planned for the dead man as "a portrait in sound of the common man magnified." As the camera plays on the alert faces of the brass, each attentive but ready to cut off the speaker's head at the first false note, it is plain that Ferrer's fate is riding on the words he is improvising. When he finishes...
...million radios and 38 million TV sets, NBC kept the air buzzing with such big names and pioneering feats as the Clicquot Club Eskimos, Amos 'n' Andy, Graham MacNamee and the first short-wave relay from England (1929), Milton Berle, Howdy Doody, Arturo Toscanini, and the first coast-to-coast telecast of a World Series (1951). Last week, as part of the four-day birthday convention at the color-blinding new Americana Hotel, NBC presented TV shows by Perry Como, Dave Garroway and Steve Allen, with such guests as Gina, Groucho, Debbie and Eddie...
...that oncoming traffic would not spoil the view. Last week Highway Man Tallamy got his chance to put these ideas in effect all over the U.S. President Eisenhower chose him as the Government's first Federal Highway Administrator in charge of its $33 billion program for a coast-to-coast network of superroads...