Word: networks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...broadcast announcement of credit. Following last November's national election, publishers set up such a howl over being scooped by Radio at the Press's own cost, that the practice was stopped. The present rule is that no news agency may supply news to any radio network. Member newspapers of Associated Press and United Press operating their own broadcasting stations may broadcast locally bulletins limited to 30 words...
...content to pay for the full half-hour and let TIME'S editors carry on free-handed as of old. The program will come every Friday night at 8:30 p. m. (Eastern Standard Time), the same half-hour and the same Columbia coast-to-coast network over which TIME has marched since March 1931. Direction will be as hereto fore, under Arthur Pryor Jr.. son of the bandmaster, program conductor for Bat ten, Barton, Durstine & Osborn. With it will come music by the same band, under able young Howard Barlow...
...occurred a good example of how kidnappers can be caught by prompt action. Three men had tried to extort $10,000 from Dr. Jacob Wachsman. Dr. Wachsman happens to be honorary physician of the New York Detectives' Association. He telephoned his detective friends and they promptly threw a network of espionage around him. A detective was his chauffeur. Detectives with fake ailments haunted his waiting room. When the extortionists finally named the location for the payment, the place bristled with sleuths selling oranges, taking stock in grocery stores, sweeping sidewalks in janitors' clothing. As soon as the money...
...docks. Their guns were trained on Tangku, the gun turrets manned. A Chinese armored train pulled in, its guns trained on the destroyers. Every 20 feet stood a Chinese with a rifle, revolver, machine-gun or snickersnee. General Hsiung was obliged to walk across a dusty road, through a network of new barbed wire and trenches, to the Japanese garrison's barracks. Inside he saluted Japanese Major-General Neiji Okamura whom he outranked, signed the curt truce agreement. Then General Hsiung and colleagues returned to Tientsin, prepared to hand their resignations to Nationalist Dictator Chiang Kaishek...
...Condor) and possible perfection of blind landing facilities. The committee might have considered the Curtiss company's production of a compact fighting plane to be carried aboard Navy airships. Or any of several companies for perfection of a controllable-pitch propeller. Or the Department of Commerce for its network of radio beacons which was in complete daily use last year. The committee chose none of those but turned to Glenn L. Martin Co. of Baltimore for its Army bomber which can streak at 200 m.p.h. with two tons of bombs in its big belly...