Word: linked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...When Figueres took Cartago, the Government canceled the international plane flights and our last communications link was gone. A member of the rebel underground pressed a note into my sleeve promising uncensored use of Tropical Radio's transmitter at Cartago, Figueres' provisional capital. So I borrowed a jacket and a pair of hiking shoes and, with a Tropical Radio telegraph operator, lit out over the mountains for Cartago...
...television, operating a six-station network in the East, and ready to link it to a seven-station Midwest network in December. By the end of the year, NBC will be up to half-steam, owning all the stations FCC allows (five), and beaming programs to 31 affiliates. Paramount Pictures already has two stations in operation, and a 29% interest in the Du Mont network. A fortnight ago, Warner Bros. applied for a station in Chicago; last week 20th Century-Fox asked for a San Francisco license...
...another, "the applicants have not shown that either public or private interests will not be adversely affected." ICC reckoned that half a dozen other railroads-and therefore the public -would have been harmed. Example: Frank D. Beale, president of the Virginian Railway Co., wailed that a C. & O.-Central link would just about choke off his road...
...Weakest Link. Dr. Condon answered sharply: "If I am the weak link in atomic security, then the nation need have no fear." He said that he had asked Thomas for a hearing last summer on the charges but had had no reply. Promptly the Commerce Department announced that only six days before the Thomas report was issued the departmental loyalty board had held, unanimously, that "no reasonable grounds exist for believing Dr. Condon is disloyal...
...Peace" is good but definitely not up to the pace set by "Open City" or "Shoe Shine." Aldo Fabrizzi is magnificent as the perplexed villager who doesn't know what to do with two escaped American prisoners of war, and there are some beautifully directed scenes. The weak link in the structure is the ending, which is forced and sentimental, entirely without the natural power of other Italian products...