Word: coast-to-coast
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Glenn Miller's 10 o'clock show tonight will feature a salute to Harvard. The popular band leader will serenade Cantabridgians with Crimson songs over a coast-to-coast hookup in his nightly session this evening...
Built to make nonstop, coast-to-coast flights for TWA, the Constellation has a range of 4,000 miles, can carry 57 passengers and a crew of seven. Her four 2,500-h.p. motors can boost her along at 283 m.p.h. cruising speed (100 m.p.h. faster than present transports), can rev it up to 350 m.p.h. The Constellation will be able to streak across the continent in eight and a half hours (four and a half hours faster than TWA's fastest...
...streetcars were taking the place of taxis. The lack of outward expressions of excitement was so obvious a fact that all sorts of theories were developed to explain it. It was because the U.S. still viewed the war as a spectacle, said Edward Murrow, CBS commentator, winding up a coast-to-coast tour: "as spectators with an inadequate understanding of our own responsibility." But even as spectators, the U.S. people were so silent that other explanations were necessary...
...should now be revealed that about two years ago the dominant interests in Mutual, R. H. Macy & Co. and the Chicago Tribune sought to purchase parts of the Blue network from us, which would have destroyed the Blue as a coast-to-coast network. By such elimination of the Blue these interests sought to diminish rather than to increase network competition. There would have been three nationwide networks instead of four as at present. We refused to dismember the Blue network...
...Harvard plays its football for fun," "Chub" Peabody declared last night when he spoke, over a coast-to-coast NBC hook-up, as a member of Bil Stern's Life Magazine All-America team. On the same program were Brude Smith and Dick Wildon of Miunesota, Frank Sinkwich of Georgia, and Frankie Albert of Stanford...