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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Moore found himself jobless when Columbia Broadcasting System abandoned its news service to join National Broadcasting Co. in the Press-Radio Agreement which limited news broadcasts to twice-daily, five-minute summaries supplied by Associated Press, United Press and Inter national News Service. Moore, deciding to buck this restriction, got financial backing, started Transradio as an independent service with no publishing or broadcasting affiliations. "We are fighting for freedom of the press of the air," he announced...
When, in 1930, Death came to John Thompson Dorrance, president and 94% owner of Campbell Soup Co., he left an estate valued at approximately $115,000.000. After long legal battles, two State inheritance taxes as well as a Federal tax were levied on the Dorrance kitty. Pennsylvania got $14,500,000; New Jersey another whopping $15,500,000. Last week, when the estate's value was finally approved by New Jersey's Orphans' Court, the Dorrance heirs (Widow Ethel and five children) found that, despite death. Depression and taxes, their fortune was bigger than ever before...
...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...
When Mr. Zukor made his prediction, cinema production, distribution and exhibition were largely separate. But a struggle for control of the industry was developing between producers and exhibitors. Such producers as Paramount got into exhibition; such exhibitors as Loew's got into production. With ever-increasing clamor during recent years, the chief trade organization of independent exhibitors, Allied States Association of Motion Picture Exhibitors, has claimed that the result has been monopolization of the cinema industry to such an extent that independents could barely exist (TIME, June 7, 1937). The Department of Justice investigated, agreed. Hence last week...
Fire In the Punjab, India, a subject wrote to the state fire brigade that his house was on fire. The fire chief acknowledged the letter, got official permission, called out the brigade, arrived at the scene of the fire, found that the citizen had built a new house on the site of the one that had burned down...