Word: elyria
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Practices? The Horvitz monopoly was threatened when the Federal Communications Commission licensed radio stations in Mansfield and later in Elyria (ten miles from Lorain). From the start, Mansfield's WMAN and Elyria's WEOL were fought by the Horvitz papers-the Mansfield News-Journal (circ. 26,000) and the Lorain Journal (circ. 21,000). Merchants complained to the federal government that both papers refused to mention the radio stations, and canceled or turned down newspaper advertising contracts with businessmen who bought radio time. When the Horvitz brothers applied for licenses to start their own radio stations, they were...
...monopolize the dissemination of news, advertising and other information. It was the first antitrust action charging a newspaper with seeking to injure a competing radio station. Besides refusing ads, the Journal was accused of trying to persuade employees of WEOL to quit, and of making a deal with an Elyria paper not to circulate or solicit ads in Lorain...
...Anderson left his desk in his Elyria, Ohio paint factory, declared "I have been wading in a long river and my feet are wet," and never came back...
Once upon a time Sherwood Anderson, manager of a paint factory in Elyria, Ohio, was dictating a letter to his secretary. Suddenly he said, "I am walking in the bed of a river," put on his hat, strode out of the paint factory, out of the town forever. He got an advertising job in Chicago, met Theodore Dreiser, Carl Sandburg, Ben Hecht, began writing stories himself. After two poor novels, Anderson brought out a remarkable sketch of small-town life, Winesburg, Ohio...
...went-Oak Harbor, Sandusky, Elyria, plowing the ground, sometimes stony, sometimes soft. Everywhere he had been phrasemaking, rather than speechmaking: "When you have unemployment you have cut the jugular vein of America. . . . People say we ought not to change horses in the middle of the stream...