Word: network
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Skier's Swoops. But after the armor had broken through this last crust, it had taken off in wide swoops over all the great road network. Lieut. General George S. Patton Jr.'s famed 4th Armored Division's Combat Commands A and B, led by the fabulously tough team of Lieut. Colonel Creighton Abrams Jr. and Major Harold Cohen, are expert in this type of war. In operations such as this penetration toward the German heart, the armor moves like a cross-country skier, sliding swiftly down roads, diagnosing the terrain on the fly. If an obstacle...
...well-founded theory that people are most interested in people and places they know, the West Virginia Network tried an experiment in "country journalism." Last week the Washington news bureau of the network* celebrated its first birthday, and could congratulate itself on proving that its kind of radio coverage had paid...
...heavy" news, energetic Miss Stephenson does the chitchat items and the legwork. On Sunday nights they feed West Virginia a program of intimate, homey details about what West Virginians are up to. The state's Washington delegation, most frequently mentioned, listens expectantly and attentively. Outraged complaints to the network from Capitol Hill are frequent-but they keep up a lively interest...
Other little stations that have had the same idea have failed. The network's exultant Managing Director Howard Chernoff knows exactly why: "They get impressed with being a Washington correspondent. Pretty soon they get talking about White House press conferences and Congress and forget the local touch. Why, we never even mention President Roosevelt on this program, except incidentally...
...Limited Marriage. In any such lumping of facilities, the Army & Navy, which are spending some $3 billion on their global network communications this year, will contribute more than all the other companies combined...