Word: murrow
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Three years ago, the State of Washington pondered plans for spanning deep, blue Lake Washington. Because of the unstable mud bottom, State highway engineers figured that an orthodox bridge, without approaches, would cost $18,000,000. Lacey V. Murrow, Director of Highways, and Charles E. Andrew, consulting engineer, decided that a pontoon bridge, approaches and all, could be built for $8,854,400. PWA offered to chip in $3,794,400. Seattle's City Council squeezed through a 5-to-4 endorsement...
...Between air-raid alarms and work few newsmen got any rest. One of the worst off was Columbia Broadcasting System's Edward R. Murrow, who worked a 19½-hour day. After his midnight broadcast he roamed the streets until 4:30 a.m., looking for damage, rose again at 9. In the basement studio where he spoke quietly across the sea, the floor was filled with mattresses on which were sleeping...
Three weeks ago CBS Newschief Paul White and CBS European Director Ed Murrow started arranging by cable and short-wave conference to present from England a show called London After Dark. Working with BBC, Murrow lined up nine commentators, including Vincent Sheean and J. B. Priestley, got them spotted with portable mikes all over Lon don. Last week the program was heard in the U. S. Unexpected was the cooperation of Adolf Hitler, whose bombers flew over London, but dropped no bombs...
First commentator heard on the CBS roundup from England was Ed Murrow. Said he: "This is Trafalgar Square. The noise you hear at the moment is the sound of the air-raid siren." Calmly Murrow described the searchlights stabbing the London sky, the muted traffic, the shelter beneath St. Martin's in the Fields. He was still talking when the program moved on to the kitchen of the Savoy Hotel, where Bob Bowman described a menu that included eight hors d'oeuvres, eight different kinds of meat and game. With him was famed Chef François Latry...
Recognized as the most ingenious, best-organized radio newsgathering agency in Europe, the CBS bureau, supervised by smart Paul White in New York, now employs eight full-time correspondents, has four stringmen on tap for special assignments. From London, the bureau's European chief, Edward Murrow, onetime president of the National Student Federation of America, wields an efficient baton over this radio symphony. Among stars that he commands are Thomas Grandin, who patrolled Columbia's Paris beat, and William L. Shirer, whose talks from Berlin have established him as the ablest newscaster of them all. Roving assistants...