Word: coast-to-coast
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...really sonorous send-off ASCAP had to wait till Sunday night. Then, on an hour-and-a-half, coast-to-coast program called "ASCAP Salutes Mutual," the composers broadcast a solemn Te Deum celebrating their first settlement with the chains...
...more than 7,000,000 tons of coast-to-coast freight moved via the Panama Canal. Chief west-to-east items are lumber and wood pulp, canned goods, gasoline and fuel oil. From east to west the big items are steel and manufactured goods. Rail rates are from two to four times higher than water rates. On some bulk commodities this difference could add 25% to 50% to delivered cost. Recently this margin has narrowed, for many shipping rates have increased, while the railroad rates have...
...week in Toronto when a United church, three ex-baby-burlesqueens and the indignant relatives of a plumber named William John Wright agreed out of court to split his $12,500 estate. The case was the screwiest yet aired by the CBS Court of Missing Heirs, which on a coast-to-coast hookup has unearthed claimants to over...
...democracy. Elmer Rice and Sherwood Anderson agreed. Together they shaped up an outfit called The Free Company, invited many another literary craftsman to join them in confecting a series of radio dramas designed to sing the various aspects of freedom in the U. S. This week, over a coast-to-coast hook-up (Sunday: 2-2:30 E. S. T.), The Free Company will get going. The Company's initial venture, characteristically entitled The People With Light Coming Out of Them, is some of the patriotic night-thoughts of William Saroyan, who examines the residents...
...whether the lure of ASCAP music would attract more listeners in Manhattan than the networks (vowed to B. M. I. tunes) could entice. This week ASCAP will continue its test, guest-starring Oscar Hammerstein 2nd. On the national front, meanwhile, ASCAP will put on a weekly hour-long coast-to-coast program of ASCAP songs over some 110 independent stations. Produced by Billy Rose, with music by a 26-piece orchestra under Director Russell Bennett, singing by a mixed chorus of 18, and a commentary by Deems Taylor, ASCAP expects its program to be quite a show. Adding...