Word: columbia
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...approaching the same condition. I hear such things as five of a family of seven starved to death. A man climbed a hill to cut fuel and fell dead. Women with babies, exhausted and despairing, laid down to die." *The President's adopted son, James Lin, postgraduates at Columbia. Said he of his father in Manhattan last week: "He neither smokes nor drinks. His only hobby is curio collecting. Every evening from 7 to 8 he sits with his curios. Sometimes he will set out a rare piece he has recently acquired and leave...
...brand new picture of a smiling, self-confident, wispy-haired man of 45 in a blue serge suit. For the past two and a half years that man has solaced thousands of uncertain minds by broadcasting homely advice as THE VOICE OF EXPERIENCE. His sponsors over the Columbia network: Wasey Products (Musterole, Kreml Hair Tonic, and a brace of nostrums known as Zemo and Haley's CTC, for stomach acidity). Last week it was the Voice of Experience who turned his first discussion of Art into neat plug for the Rembski show in general and his own portrait...
...Columbia Suit. One of Columbia Gas & Electric Corp.'s biggest Depression deals was to connect its 29,000-mi. Midwest natural gas system with the Texas Panhandle through Panhandle Eastern Pipe Line Co. in which it has a 50% interest. Last week the Federal Government filed suit against Columbia Gas & Electric for conspiracy in restraint of trade, charging that it had prevented Panhandle Eastern from selling natural gas to cities and corporations in five Midwest States...
Topping the list was Chicago's Blackett- Sample-Hummert, Inc. which laid out a total of $4,104,000 for eight programs over National Broadcasting Co.'s system 14 over Columbia Broadcasting System.† Its radio accounts included Bayer's Aspirin, Ovaltine, College Inn Food Products. Nearly tied with Blackett was the leader for the two previous years, J. Walter Thompson, with accounts like Standard Brands (Chase & Sanborn, Fleischmann), Cutex, Carter's Ink, Eastman Kodak, Kraft-Phenix Cheese. Third with a radio budget of $2,900,000 was Lord & Thomas whose best account is American Tobacco...
...Last week Columbia Broadcasting announced that there were nearly 2,500,000 more radio sets in the U. S. than anyone suspected, bringing total radio homes to 21,456,000. The CBS cstimate was derived from a Daniel Starch survey of 125,000 homes. Previous figures were based on the 1930 census which was taken at time when there was wild talk of a radio-set tax, particularly in the South where radio-ownership is supposed to have been been generally concealed...