Word: feed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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However radio broadcasting may stack up among the arts, it is no slouch as a business. Last week the Federal Communications Commission, after looking at the records of the 660 active U. S. commercial broadcasting stations and the three major networks which feed 350 of them, revealed how radio stood in 1938. Its plant value and investment totaled $1,068,339,901. Total revenues (time sales, talent placing, rental of network facilities, etc.) were $111,358,378. Broadcasting expenses (talent costs, advertising, promotion, administration, etc.) were $92,503,594. Net income from broadcasting in 1938: $18,854,784, 17% less...
...charged by Mr. Alfred Cope [TIME, June 19], administrator of the American Friends Service Committee, against General Franco? Mr. Cope says that six or seven shiploads of food intended for the starving children who are victims of the Totalitarian blockade of Loyalist Spain, were deliberately diverted by Franco to feed his army...
...Monk sings, makes strange gurglings, stares out of the window, suddenly emits an ecstatic "goatlike cry of joy." Whereupon they join in wild cavorting, break off to eat the lunch which she comes each day to prepare. At times Monk speaks as follows: "Can I devour you? Can I feed my life on yours, get all your life and richness into me, walk about with you inside me, breathe you into my lungs like harvest, absorb you, eat you, melt you, have you in my brain, my heart, my pulse, my blood forever . . ." and so on until the smell...
...contrary, three streams of civilized behavior feed American life. There is the chivalry of which the South is proud, the finely tempered, grave courtesy of old New England and the incomparable warmheartedness of the West...
...regulate the forced flow of air whose moisture was at the mercy of the weather. With the new Carrier outfit, already proved experimentally, no flame regulation will be necessary; it can condense an average of some 20 tons of water out of Birmingham Valley's smoky atmosphere daily, feed air of constant low humidity into the furnace. If successful, the new air-conditioning trick will remove one more human element from smelting, make pig of new uniformity...