Word: network
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...operating chief, Sam Insull knew no peer. His network of gas, light, power and transit companies spread over 32 States from North Dakota to Florida to Maine, served some 10,000,000 people, had securities with a market value of over three billion dollars, had combined earning power of a half billion a year. Sam Insull, however, was not content to be known as an operating genius alone. Through an elaborate series of investment trusts and holding companies, he proceeded to acquire stock control of those same utilities which he already controlled through good management. Because others were bidding against...
...vice president of Burrus Mill & Elevator Co., Mr. O'Daniel used to plug sales of "Light Crust Flour" with a "hillbilly band" over a Texas network. A persuasive announcer and able musician, Salesman O'Daniel popularized not only his company's flour but songs of his own, Beautiful Texas and Sons of the Alamo. Four years ago he formed his own Hillbilly Flour Co., made a half-million dollars, got elected president of the Fort Worth Chamber of Commerce. He and his hillbillies stayed...
Friends of vividness in U. S. political oratory wished that Alf Landon had said over his national network at Council Bluffs something as readable as his impromptu remarks at Willis, Kans. two evenings be fore. There, before an audience of 1,500 farmers, Landon of Kansas unhitched his oratorical galluses and cracked...
...Three years ago the Federation's New York Local 802 attacked dance-band programs piped into the studios from outside and then broadcast. They argued that musicians on such programs were doing two jobs for the price of one, demanded a fee ($3 per man per broadcast on network stations, less on local stations) to be paid for remote control band broadcasts into the union's unemployment fund. After a battle, the union...
Outraged Clevelanders immediately protested to NBC's Red-network Cleveland station, WTAM, that the city's exhausted relief funds and long bread lines were not gagging matters. Bewildered, Station WTAM broadcast apologies, assured listeners that no reference to Ohio's relief headache had been intended. Residents of Beautiful Ohio needed to have it explained to them that in Broadwayese "from hunger" describes a performance so bad that it is done only because the performer must...