Word: network
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hefty Minnesotan called on President Truman, reported that he was ready to return to duty as Commander Stassen, U.S.N.R. But for one night last week he was still Citizen Stassen, with a message for other U.S. citizens about the World Security charter. His audience was vast-the NBC network...
...loans, Mr. Baird said bravely, were "private and personal investments entered into for profit because [they] carried for the lenders an option to purchase stock in the network. . . . The gains could have been substantial." Baird and Bilofsky were luckier than Groceryman Hartford, who lent Elliott $200,000, got back...
...Blue network last week gave up its plain name and took a fancy one: the American Broadcasting Co. It had wanted to go a little further and call itself ABC -but two ABCs were there first (Arizona Broadcasting Co., Michigan's Associated Broadcasting Corp.) If the public, however, discovers and insists on using American's obvious nickname, the network will purr contentedly and make no objection...
Most Blue listeners probably shared Juliet's unconcern about the significance of names. But the network had its own solid reason for the change. Ever since FCC set the 197 station Blue on its own two and a half years ago, the Blue has longed to forget that for 15 years it was only a little brother to NBC's powerful Red network...
Western Europe now has a network of "garages," the like of which the Continent-and probably the U.S. as well-has never seen. Having kept the armies rolling across Germany, they are now putting everything that "rolls, shoots or explodes" in shape for reshipment to the Far East. Many divisions are already rolling out of Germany with equipment in top shape...