Word: mutually
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Refused, 50 to 38, to agree with the House in slashing military aid funds by $420 million in the Mutual Security bill. Then the Senate passed the $3.2 billion bill, 62 to 22, and sent it to a House-Senate conference committee, where a hard fight was expected...
...advertise General Tire's products. In 1946, young Tom took over the network and quickly expanded. He pushed into TV, began broadcasting on his first station (Boston's WNAC-TV) in 1948, from there started building up General Tire's other big radio-TV interest: the Mutual Network, of which General Tire owned...
...Mutual's other owners (each with 20%) were the West Coast Don Lee network, the Chicago Tribune, Macy's department store, and a group of smaller investors...
...Neil swung a $12 million deal for the Don Lee network with its 45 Western radio stations. A year later, he got control of Manhattan's WOR and WOR-TV by buying out Macy's interest, and later got control of Mutual. At the same time, General Tire had been merging all its radio-TV holdings, which became General Teleradio in 1952, with Tom O'Neil as president of the new company. Says his father: "That Tom, he makes money...
...average $40,000 apiece, he bought 30 old pictures from the Bank of America (which it had got through foreclosure), including Miracle of the Bells and Arch of Triumph. O'Neil called his programs "Million Dollar Movie," and ran what amounted to a movie house on Mutual's New York station WOR-TV, showing each film as often as three times daily. The response surprised even O'Neil; so many people tuned in on the show in the course of a week that it got a top cumulative-audience rating in the New York area...