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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Federal Communications Commission last spring it seemed proper to question the advisability of one company's controlling two out of four national networks and one quarter of U.S. radio outlets. FCC also pointed out that vast NBC was only a detail in Radio Corp. of America-whose activities included not only NBC but the manufacture of its equipment, the sale of radio sets, the management of artists, a share (through RKO) in the production of movies, the manufacture of movie sound equipment, phonograph records, etc. But FCC did not observe how nearly indispensable...
...Germany (TIME. Dec. 23), but actually the plan which the President revealed was no great secret and it has yet to receive official Nazi sanction. Religious News Service distributed two long stories on a very similar plan in 1938, and the Christian Science Monitor ran the plan in detail five days before Mr. Roosevelt's Navy Day speech, with an introductory paragraph reading...
...broad outlines of the book serve admirably to draw together the divergent threads which have been unravelling all over the Washington landscape. It brings out the sober facts about how much butter we will have to sacrifice to get enough guns. It is carefully documented, and goes into thorough detail. But the abundance of facts, and the assumption that the reader can supply the general economic background necessary to understand the relation between scores of separate conclusions makes this guide to the mazes of Defense tough going for the layman. He may wish that his author had given more thought...
...naval experts the Normandie has never appeared to be just a luxury liner. Say they: "A blind man could tell what this ship was supposed to do for her country in wartime." They point out that almost every construction detail of the Normandie makes for easy conversion. With her enormous length (1,029 feet), her broad beam (119 feet), she has plenty of space for a fine flight deck. Her two working stacks (the third is a dummy) are both fed by flues that run up her sides to her topdeck. It would be a simple job of reconstruction...
There are two good reasons why: 1) John Gunther has enormous prestige as a news coverer of continents (Inside Europe; Inside Asia); 2) his amassing of colorful detail is as easy to take as gossip...