Word: oklahomas
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Across the nation last week, newspapers were reviving a 20-year-old feud with broadcasters. Nashville's Banner and Tennessean made front-page announcements that thenceforth they would print radio & TV program listings only in paid advertisements. They were joined by five other newspaper publishers in Oklahoma City and Chico, Calif. The trade journal Editor & Publisher found "a good deal of logic" in their position. Nashville's seven radio & TV stations were standing firm at week's end, confident that public pressure would force the newspapers back into free program listing. Said a Nashville set owner...
...Force academy, a "West Point of the Air," but did not decide where to put it, or how much to spend on it. Possible locations: Colorado Springs, St. Louis, Marysville (Calif.), Madison (Ind.), Charlotte (N.C.), or somewhere in Texas-the Dallas-Fort Worth area, Randolph Field, or near the Oklahoma border. Minimum cost: $125 million...
Tipped off that a mysterious gang of undergraduates was trying to peddle advance copies of his final examination for $30 apiece, Instructor Gilbert Geis of the University of Oklahoma decided that it would be only proper for him to crack the case himself. Last week he got one of his students to cooperate, told him to let it be known that he needed an advance copy of the exam and to get one of the culprits to deliver it himself. The trap worked: when the culprit arrived, both Instructor Geis and the campus chief of police were on hand...
...Fred Jones, 61, Oklahoma City Ford dealer and oil-company executive, moved into the newly created job of board chairman of the $34 million Braniff Airways, Inc. Named president of Braniff was Charles E. Beard, 53, succeeding Airline Pioneer Thomas E. Braniff, who died in a private-plane crash in Louisiana last week. Beard (no kin to the late Historian Charles A. Beard) came to Braniff in 1935, has been executive vice president
since 1947. Jones, a Braniff director since 1944, started out in the auto-selling business in 1920, when he put a faltering Ford agency in Blackwell, Okla. on its feet. He got a Ford dealership in Oklahoma City, quickly built it into the biggest in the state. He added a Tulsa agency, a radio station (KFMJ), and became vice president of the Julian Oil & Royalty...