Word: network
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Merger of U.S. cable and radiotelegraph companies into a global "telecommunications" network...
...possible consideration at the United Nations health parley in June, he outlined a scheme: a globe-girdling network of public health stations, serviced by a medical "intelligence system" which would spot epidemics at their source, flash the news to other stations by radio. Air travelers would be immunized before entering a disease area, overhauled thoroughly when leaving. Travelers who refused immunization would be warned that they had been exposed, alerted on symptoms; word of their exposure would precede them to their next destination, where they would be rechecked...
Another of the series of interview with newsworthy personalities will be broadcast Monday evening by the Crimson Network when a transcribed session with Mrs. Ruth Lipper, executive secretary tot he late Wendell Willkie, will be presented at 9:15 o'clock...
After a lofty resolve to limit advertising to the bare mention of a sponsor's name, radio forgot its good resolution, went after advertising that has multiplied radio's receipts 60 times since 1927. Programming was concentrated in network headquarters, control and responsibility abdicated to a small group of advertisers. Says Siepmann: public service continued to diminish while profits soared. Example: in 1944, radio's net return before taxes ($90,000,000) was more than double the depreciated value of all its tangible property...
...realities." In 18 years, William S. Paley has not changed this opinion of radio. He was only 27 when he paid $400,000, partly from cigar-peddling profits, to buy the Columbia Broadcasting System. The date: 1928. Since then, "Wild Bill" has personally directed his lusty, incredibly wealthy network, kept it staffed with an unusual collection of young men. When he returned to his desk after 24 months overseas, Bill Paley decided to shake up his first team. Last week, after four months of line-up juggling, he had a gang as open-eyed as himself...