Word: network
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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History embarrasses the Columbia Broadcasting System. The subject is regarded at CBS as a gallingly large number of news events that the network's crack news staff was unable to cover. Last week, CBS covered its embarrassment with a series called CBS Is There. This week, the network time-machined a broadcaster back to 1492 and the deck of Columbus' flagship, the Santa Maria. He reported...
...hurdle was the sale of the first issue of World Bank bonds, $250 million worth. They were quickly oversubscribed, thanks to more than 1,600 securities dealers, the biggest bond-selling network ever formed. Most of the buyers were insurance companies and banks attracted by the 2¼% and 3% interest. A few minutes after trading in the bonds began on the New York Stock Exchange, they were bid up from the par value (100) at which they were floated. The 2¼s, maturing in 1957, hit a high of 102, the 25-year 3s a high...
They paid off. Vic landed a quarter-hour on Manhattan's WHN, went into a full-network sustaining spot on Mutual. Then the late George Washington Hill snapped him up as an understudy to Andy Russell on the Hit Parade. Vic never sang on the show. "That Russell," he complains, "is the healthiest crooner...
Competing with the aircraft motors, on the guest speakers' platform, beginning at 8:15 o'clock, will be Lieutenant-Governor Arthur W. Coolidge; Linus Towers, executive vice president of the Yankee Network; Rear-Admiral Morton Dayo; Major General Horace McBridge; S. Murray Forbes, Wellesley trustoo; and star Jane Cowl...
...still on the road, Owen met Bertie Keen, who married him, taught him to read & write and joined his business as a bookkeeper. In 1922, they opened a trading barn in Kansas City's stockyards, slowly developed it into a center for a widespread trading network...