Word: outletting
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...Hitler have much they can still do for each other before they finally come to grips, if ever they do. For Russia's passive assistance in Hitler's drive into the Near East, Stalin may get a free hand in part of the Middle East and an outlet to the Indian Ocean. Last week reports continued of Russian troop concentrations within striking distance of Iran. Whatever diplomatic effect the decree might have, Joseph Stalin was also readying Russia's creaking transport system to serve the Red Army...
...strictures were chiefly aimed to make the outlets more independent of the networks. Chains were forbidden to use more than one outlet in any area, or control more than one group of networks. The latter meant that NBC must choose be tween its Red and Blue networks, probably sell or disband Blue...
...once they put a hand to net-outlet relations, FCC threatened the whole delicate basis of present chain broadcasting. Last year the two big networks sold $68,000,000 worth of commercial time; local stations got 28% of that sum as their share. In addition the networks spent nine millions on such worthy sustaining programs as Columbia's School of the Air, NBC's Symphony Orchestra, which they supplied to their members. If local outlets no longer can be made to promise cooperation, this whole intricate system of paid and unpaid programs may well break down. In that...
...border, in Siberia, troops were also on the move, going westward and to the southwest. Russia, as well as Japan, had need of the seasoned soldiers who had stood guard in the northeast of Asia. If Adolf Hitler's legions ousted Great Britain from the Near East, an outlet to the Persian Gulf might be Russia's if she could take...
...Yugoslavia's fighting had disposed their limited forces further west in the obvious expectation that it would be foolish to try to hold Salonika. Yet the British themselves once called the town, not carelessly, "the gateway of two continents." Possession of the port gave the Nazis their first outlet on the Mediterranean. They could use it to grim effect as a base for planes and submarines...