Word: damm
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Logan's outcry raised echoes which were rumbling throughout the U.S. last week. In the Midwest, even individual TV stations joined the crusade. Walter J. Damm, general manager of Milwaukee's WTMJ-TV, which had already turned down NBC's Lights Out and CBS's Suspense, and called for a nationwide cleanup, said that? "the time has come for independent TV stations to take positive action about the whodunits." In St. Louis, General Manager George M. Burbach of KSD-TV said that he had been deluging NBC for months with "our objections to gory programs...
Departing from custom, A.N.P.A. set aside one session in which experts will discuss FM (frequency modulation) broadcasting. The experts: FM's inventor, Major E. H. Armstrong, General Electric's Dr. W. R. G. Baker, and Walter J. Damm, president of FM Broadcasters, Inc. (also vice president of the Milwaukee Journal). Interest was aroused by: 1) the recent FCC acceptance of postwar FM station applications; 2) among newspaper applicants, such stalwarts as the New York Times and News, Omaha World-Herald, Washington Star, Atlanta Constitution, the three major St. Louis dailies. Another straw in the air-news wind: some...
...dived in over List from due west. The German batteries set up such a fierce yammering that the newcomer released only two bombs before whirling back over the North Sea. But the whole length of Sylt-the seaplane base down at Westernland, the anti-aircraft towers on the Hindenburg Damm (causeway) connecting the island umbilically with the mainland, and the seaplane base at Hörnum on the southeast tip 20 miles away-began thudding and crackling with bomb and gun explosions. For ten minutes more Herr Schmidt watched the show-biggest British air raid of the war-until...