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Frontier Question. In Radford's command is the Navy's far-flung string of Pacific bases, from Pearl Harbor to the projected new base at Camranh Bay in Indo-China. Pearl and Guam are the main bases for repair and service of warships, as well as for staging land-based air. Okinawa, a major base for the Air Force's B-29s, is not now being used by the Navy but is on standby status. So is Kwajalein. Two bases in Japan (Yokosuka and Sasebo) are capable of handling large naval forces, and a twin base...
...these far-flung musical notes last week were piping a merry jingle of dollars into the Manhattan headquarters of Muzak Corp., which grossed $5,000000 in 1949 by providing "wired music" to 10,000 customers in 150 cities, not only in the U.S. but also in Mexico, Canada and Puerto Rico. Last week Muzak, which now pipes its music over telephone wires, was tuning up a new project. It was starting large-scale production of tape recordings so that it could put music into air planes and other places with no phone connections...
...display racks of busy shops along Commerce and Poydras Streets, 859 manufacturers showed off their styles, designed with the splash and color which have made Texas clothes a big-selling favorite of 20,000 retail stores in 3,500 cities and towns all over the U.S. To service these far-flung outlets, Dallas manufacturers have taken to air freight; last year Texas' own Slick Airways flew out 349,000 pounds of Dallas fashions, which have even invaded Manhattan...
Duffy, and his far-flung team of 50 vice presidents and 1,150 employees in eleven U.S. cities, had done it by snagging choice new accounts (Lucky Strike, Schick Razors, Swan Soap, T.W.A.), and by hanging on to such B.B.D. & O. perennials as U.S. Steel Corp., Du Pont and General Electric. In six years, the agency had added a cool $50 million to its billings, more than doubled its business. B.B.D. &O. reports no gross revenue, but based on the usual 15% commission, its gross had risen to about $12 million a year...
...brief summary of TIME'S continuing story of David Dubinsky and the I.L.G.W.U. When the editors decided last month to round out this chronicle by means of a cover story, TIME correspondents in ten cities in the U.S. and Canada went to work digging into I.L.G.W.U.'s far-flung activities. Correspondent Windsor Booth, labor reporter from our Washington bureau, and Researcher Anne Lopatin, who spent days talking to garment workers, concentrated on the union's headquarters in New York. National Affairs' A. T. Baker gathered his own first-hand impressions of the garment section and Dubinsky...