Word: go-ahead
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...Radio Corp. of America, was last February's leap-year day. On the 20th of February, after seven days of public hearings on the technique and possibilities of television and a month's deliberation, the Federal Communications Commission gave RCA and lesser telecasters a history-making go-ahead...
From Franklin Roosevelt in the Caribbean flashed a go-ahead wire to Jesse Jones. Finnish Industrialist W'illiam Wahlforss sailed for home well satisfied. Connecticut's Representative William Miller said the bill was a "safe step, short...
Last week, after years of promotion by Californians, the U. S. Bureau of Reclamation (Department of the Interior) gave the go-ahead signal to Pacific Constructors, Inc., a 12-company syndicate which successfully bid $35,939,450 for the erection of Shasta Dam. Final moneys for this purpose were voted by the last Congress. The project, which will do for Northern California what Herbert Hoover's Boulder Dam does for Southern California, is now entirely financed by the Federal Government, which hopes to get the money back from water sales in 40 years...
...than be sold, his perverse refusal to switch brands once satisfied with the one he has got, resulting in an all-round sales resistance calculated to turn an occidental adman's hair grey. Example: Smarting under the British monopoly, a U. S. client gave the Crow agency a go-ahead on the biggest advertising campaign ever put on in China. Chinese smokers took a few sample puffs, grimaced, went back to the British brand. When another manufacturer duplicated a favorite British blend exactly, designed a beautiful packet, priced it lower, the sales were still nil. Chinese customers, guided...
...Senators but preferred by the President is Senator Barkley. Senator Barkley not yet majority leader nevertheless openly led the Administration's fight, rallying several more or less radically inclined freshmen Senators such as Schwartz of Wyoming and Pepper of Florida. He was credited with having been given the go-ahead signal by the White House...