Word: network
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Canada was held together by little more than the railway tracks that joined British Columbia to the prairie provinces and eastern industrial towns. During the '50s, vital east-west links were added. In 1958 the publicly-owned Canadian Broadcasting Corp. (TIME, Dec. 14) completed the longest microwave relay network (4,000 miles) in the world. The Trans-Canada pipeline, finished in 1958, put Ontario and Quebec markets within reach of the rich, new Alberta gasfields. By the end of 1960, the last scattered 130 miles of the country's first transcontinental highway - which was only...
...headed for the boneyard. Last week CBS gave them new life, promised to reimburse the giveaway shows for the cost of the hardware that was formerly provided by schlock-hungry companies. The bill will not be cheap: House Party and two other Linkletter shows alone will cost the network about $3,000 a week...