Word: generalizes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...News will carry features of North American Newspaper Alliance, United Feature, Bell Syndicate; but for general news it will rely solely on Transradio Press Service. While the choice of Transradio was dictated by economy rather than preference, for Transradio Press the event is a milestone: never before in its turbulent four-year history has a daily in a big U. S. city used it exclusively...
...which proved that the better behaved a royal family may be the less interest it holds for a democracy, Crown Prince Gustaf Adolf, Crown Princess Louise and Prince Bertil of Sweden set sail for home on the Gripsholm. They said they had a wonderful time. As a gift from General Motors. Prince Bertil took back with him a shiny new 8-cylinder Cadillac sedan...
...find its first general manager, British Broadcasting Co. Ltd. inserted a want ad in a technical paper. That was in 1922 and John Charles Walsham Reith answered the ad, got the job. Since then the company has become The British Broadcasting Corp., has grown to overwhelming imperial importance. Director-General Reith got a knighthood and now a new $50,000 post as director of Imperial Airways...
...licensed radio sets in the British Isles, broadcaster of short-wave service to the distant outposts of Empire, operator of the world's first schedule of television broadcasts for public entertainment. Therefore, last month when Sir John Reith's new appointment left BBC without a director-general, the choice of his successor was a matter of prime public interest. Britishers had come to believe that dour, resourceful Sir John was the BBC. For he had never hesitated to take on his own broad, stooped Scottish shoulders direct and total responsibility for BBC policies and moral tone...
...never broadcast, but the twelve-year-old eldest of his three sons recently wrote a play which was aired on a Northern Ireland children's program. BBC knows him as the man who persuaded it to broadcast pop concerts for his Belfast students during lunch time. But Director-General Ogilvie comes to BBC at a time when there is talk of spending ?1,000,000 to double Broadcasting House facilities, when the daring television venture needs careful nursing, when BBC's critics are calling for a return of the human element to their efficient but relatively austere radio...