Word: networks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Lord will no longer have anything to do with it. Back in his early days in radio, he sometimes wrote and directed as many as four shows at once. Today, as soon as a show is under way, he leases it to anyone who wants it-a network, advertising agency or another producer...
...plot unfolds in the fabulous Kuder mansion (of course on Broadway), where the footmen wear burgundy, the bellhops chartreuse, and the various rooms are connected with an intercom television network. Old Kuder goes after Ludviga with some very fancy small talk: "You are a goddess, I am a millionaire, so we are equals. I wish I were younger but immortality is one thing you can't buy even in America." Meanwhile, Dollar Princess Jenny plots to throw her father out of his business and get all the money for herself. She sings: "Love is no good at the bank...
...ruling grew out of the Mayflower Broadcasting Corp.'s unsuccessful application in 1941 to take over the radio frequency used by the Yankee Network's Worcester station WAAB. FCC had been blasting WAAB for broadcasting "socalled editorials . . . urging the election of various candidates . . . or supporting one side or another of various questions in public controversy." WAAB's license was grudgingly renewed but only on the station's promise not "to color or editorialize" the news...
Died. Franz von Rintelen, 72, World War I master saboteur and head of the German spy network operating from New York; in London. Bald, dashing Prussian Captain von Rintelen came to the U.S. in 1915 with $500,000 and instructions to prevent munitions from reaching the Allies. He lost much of the money playing the stockmarket, but managed to carry out his orders: 32 Allied ships were damaged or sunk when incendiary time-bombs exploded in their holds. Responsible for a wave of dock strikes and the Black Tom explosion (and suspected of planning the sinking of the Lusitania), Rintelen...
Like the rest of the highway chain, the Massachusetts turnpike would be only a supplement to and not a replacement for the old road network. Using the speedway would be optional; no one traveling from one Massachusetts point to another would be obliged to pay the toll...