Word: europeanization
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Although the total effect of the European war on Harvard registration cannot be learned until the final returns are tabulated sometime next week, the fate of one group of students, the holders of fellowships abroad, is already known...
...considerably beyond the limit of radio's rules for mystery serials. Even in prizefight broadcasts a fighter may be cut, but he never bleeds, yet from Warsaw NBC had broadcast into U. S. parlors bashed brains, hacked-off hands, slaughtered children. Commentators, necessarily, were far from neutral. The European news reports broadcast were censored at the source, and amounted to little more than propaganda (even though the press printed no less censored news). In addition to all this, the cost had been terrific-as much as $18 a minute for transatlantic connections, countless refunds to advertisers whose programs...
...stations). CBS decided on at least two foreign hookups a day, interruptions of programs for big news only. NBC planned to use its men abroad on a newly announced schedule of war news periods only when they had something to say, began to scout around for correspondents in neutral European capitals, in the hope of getting uncensored news...
...Following the U. S. State Department's restrictions on transatlantic travel (see below), Pan American changed its European terminals to Foynes, Eire instead of Southampton, Lisbon, Portugal instead of Marseille. Same time, pleading "extraordinary demands upon the United States . . . services," Chairman Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney sought CAA permission to double Pan American's present twice-weekly transatlantic schedule, enabling it to carry nearly 200 passengers, 8,000 Ib. of mail...
...subject of propaganda most editorialists were careful to warn their readers against claims made by both sides in the war. But they could not resist the chance to take a sideswipe at radio. Wrote the Chicago Tribune: "Radio permits direct connection with virtually every European nation. The official liars will be as busy as they were a quarter of a century ago . . . but this time we will be able to listen to both liars and compare their claims...