Word: columbia
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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According to recently released figures. Harvard ranks twelfth in the country as far as the number of full-time students is concerned, and twentieth in the number of all resident students. Outclassed by California, Columbia, Minnesota, Illinois, New York U., Ohio State, Michigan, Wisconsin, U. of Washington, Texas, and C. C. N. Y., Harvard has a measly 8,111 full-timers compared with California's 22,122, and Columbia's 14,662. In the whole country, there are 146,224 full-time students, and 1,140,786 resident students...
...long schedule were to be a New Year's Day football game between two crack U. S. college teams; an amateur boxing tournament; jai-alai matches; an international basketball tournament; the baseball championship of Cuba. As a special opening attraction, Cuban Sports Commissioner Carlos L. Henriquez, one-time Columbia footballer, dug up the ancient stunt of a race between a human and a horse, with famed Jesse Owens making his first track appearance as a professional...
...hold their major outlets across the U. S., National Broadcasting Co. (two networks) and Columbia Broadcasting System own some stations, make contracts with others.* Because of the monopolistic nature of chain broadcasting, Federal control of licensing and the scarcity of radio stations not tied up with N. B. C. or C. B. S., successful emergence of a rival network with coast-to-coast outlets depended largely upon co-operation of three potent Eastern and Midwestern independents-WOR, Newark; WLW, Cincinnati; WGN, Chicago-and upon securing Pacific Coast facilities...
...hookup with Mutual meant Columbia had to have new California stations. They bought the State's most powerful independent station, KNX at Hollywood (50,000 watts), also KFSO at San Francisco, which this week will be added to the C. B. S. chain. N. B. C., not caught napping, went after four stations owned by the McClatchy newspapers...
...chains if it wants to. Without all of the new station alignments reflecting in its income, M. B. S. reported gross program billings of $1,794,000 for the first eleven months of 1936 as compared with $1,117,000 for the same period last year, a 60% increase. Columbia's program revenues for the same period were $20,788,000, comparing with $15,751,000, a 32% increase. N. B. C. reported an eleven-month figure of $30,935,000 for 1936, comparing with $28,255,000 last year, a 9% rise...