Word: network
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...prophet of arts & letters. Few men can tell a story as entertainingly as Alexander Woollcott, and few would dare to be as malicious. As Cream of Wheat's "Town Crier" on the radio, he received more "high class" fan mail than any other single entertainer on the Columbia network. Sales of his book, While Rome Burns, approached 90,000. Like bumboat boys diving for pennies, book publishers scrambled for Woollcott words of praise for a new work, to splash on the volume's jacket as the blurb of blurbs. He prefers to "discover" some inconspicuous novel and, like...
...buzzed a gadfly named Transradio Press Service, an upstart newsgathering organization in the business of serving independent radio stations which preferred not to be bound by the truce (TIME, Oct. 29). In Pittsburgh Transradio found such a station in WJAS, which is locally owned but hooked into the Columbia network. WJAS found a potent sponsor in Kaufmann's department store, biggest, most progressive retail business in Pittsburgh. On New Year's Day, WJAS inaugurated two daily 15-min. news broadcasts, supplied by Transradio and paid for, $1,000 a week, by Kaufmann...
President Plugge's latest addition to I. B. C. is the Yankee Network. Boston station WNAC and Providence station WEAN now bombard the British Isles with short wave advertisements, try to wean His Majesty's subjects from their favorite liver pills to others. The pill now chiefly plugged by President Plugge was announced before the holidays cheerily thus : "You must be ready for Christmas! Begin taking Bile Beans right away...
...good, it's cute. CUTE, cute picture." Dallas had Mexican Red Shirts arrested in Mexico City and Kansas City somewhat wistfully offered a view of the last session of the Bi-Cameral Legislature in Nebraska. "Okay, Dallas." or "Okay, Miami, you take the network," Editor Huse would direct. Or, if San Francisco had a picture of a missing lowan, of no interest to outsiders, Des Moines could get New York's permission to have the picture flashed to the Des Moines Register and Tribune when the network was not too busy...
...rivers might not be entirely under control in times of major floods, but the crest of the floods would have been lowered. . . . Power lines would have flung an intricate, interconnected network over the whole region. . . . Every farmer's family would find its work lightened by the use of electricity. New manufactures, perhaps new inventions, might have restored some of their lost traffic to the rivers. Possibly recreational uses would have supplanted commerce on most of them. Playgrounds of all sorts . . . would be more extensive and more thickly spotted over...