Word: network
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Besides these mainstays, the blueprint calls for a network of secondary bases crisscrossing the Pacific: Okinawa, Iwo Jima, Eniwetok, Kwajalein, the Palaus (all paid for in U.S. blood); eastern Samoa, Wake, Midway (already U.S. possessions) ; Truk and Manus...
...bugaboo in television's dream of a coast-to-coast network is the formidable fact that the world is round. Until television beams are bent, reception will remain limited to line-of-sight distances which seldom exceed 50 miles...
...worst is yet to come for some of the 20,000 G.I.s and the English girls they married overseas. The brides have yet to meet their U.S. in-laws. To help them cross this bridge before they come to it, England's BBC and the Mutual network teamed up last week in the first of a weekly trans-Atlantic series, Here Comes the Bride. The 15-minute broadcast, short as it was, broke some...
...Mutual Network broke into Double or Nothing to spread the news, and premature celebrations were touched off in Manhattan's Times Square, in Canada, where the canned voice of Prime Minister Mackenzie King was promptly put on for a victory broadcast, and even in Australia...
...V.D.M.T.- "V.D.M.T.-" G.I.s in Europe, hearing these cryptic initials aired again & again over the American Forces Network, were intrigued. They were supposed to be. Captain Frank Danzig, peacetime CBS man, dreamed up the V.D.M.T. in response to an Army...