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Word: network (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...dozen are technically capable of speeds over 75 m.p.h. But while British owners bandy maximum speeds, r.p.m.s and acceleration rates as expertly as if auto racing were the nation's favorite blood sport, they seldom, if ever, get to test these heady technicalities. On an antique road network, pocked by decades of neglect and choked by 8,500,000 cars and trucks passing relentlessly through one narrow village after another, most drivers consider themselves Barney Oldfields if they can occasionally push speedometers over 30 m.p.h., and they get their thrills by passing on curves or parking on them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: M-l for Murder | 11/16/1959 | See Source »

...B.B.G. will soon put up for grabs licenses for new private TV stations in the major Canadian cities, which at present have only one station each (some privately and some governmentally owned, but all affiliated with the government network, the Canadian Broadcasting Corp.). Under its proposed code, the new stations-as well as the old-would be required to provide 55% Canadian programing, stay off the air until noon, reserve two hours of prime evening time for programs of which the governors approve. Private broadcasters see this code as deadly to profits, arguing that 55% Canadian programs would necessarily...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CANADA: The Bad Example | 11/16/1959 | See Source »

...these decadent circumstances, network brass pleaded that they had been as much duped as the viewing public, but it became fairly well evident that, if they did not know about the quizzes, it was because they had not wanted or had not tried to know. The whole affair, wrote the New York Times, focused attention "on a shocking state of rottenness within the radio-television world and on the 'get-rich-quick' schemes through which so many people were corrupted and so many millions deceived. What has been revealed is deplorable in respect to the level of public...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TELEVISION: The Tarnished Image | 11/16/1959 | See Source »

...Gateway Singers--three white men and a Negro girl, who are now appearing at Storyville--have allegedly been barred from national network appearances because they are "integrated," according to reports from the group's manager, Franklin Fried, and from a Harvard Business School student who is involved in promotion of the Gateways...

Author: By Alan H. Grossman, | Title: Manager of 'Integrated' Quartet Alleges Network Discrimination | 11/13/1959 | See Source »

Fried cited a recent occasion when he was approached by a vice-president of a major network who asked him if the group would appear on one of the network's shows. A few days later, he claimed, another official told him that the singers' appearance would be an impossibility because of anticipated "trouble" from stations in the South...

Author: By Alan H. Grossman, | Title: Manager of 'Integrated' Quartet Alleges Network Discrimination | 11/13/1959 | See Source »

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