Word: nationalisms
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...President submitted proposals for a National health insurance bill. In addition to the administration measure, there are two other health plan bills, one backed by Senator Robert A. Taft; the other, by Senator Lister Hill. All three bills and almost everyone concerned with the debate over the nation's health are in basic agreement on one thing: something has to be done...
...facts and ideas." Heralded by newspaper ads, another 50,000 copies went on sale (at 25?) on newsstands across the U.S. With no other preliminary promotion, The Reporter hoped eventually to pick up 50,000 readers who would be attracted by its basic editorial proposition: "America as a nation [is] inseparably tied to the freedom and well-being of other nations...
Music: to NBC for the NBC Symphony, Orchestras of the Nation and the First Piano Quartet, "a record of enterprise to be proud...
Most station owners found cold comfort in being told that radio was doing a good job of nursing and fattening its own assassin. The nation's 50 TV stations (mostly supported by radio) lost $15 million in 1948. While it was being suckled by radio, TV was taking a larger & larger share of radio's advertising. Despite the record revenue for the industry as a whole, one out of every four radio stations showed a loss last year. Nearly half of the 340 stations licensed in 1948 failed to break even. Things looked even worse for 1949. Warned...
...once-rejected projects (such as the portable concrete harbors and LCT's which he had first blueprinted in World War I) and a mass of experience concerning everything from seas and men to small arms and bomb fuzes. Above all, he sets out to turn the menaced island nation into "a spider's web of communications...