Word: owis
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...American people are not being adequately informed about the war" concluded eleven top U.S. newspaper executives last week, after surveying naval and military censorship at the request of OWI...
They blamed not OWI, nor Army & Navy public relations officers, but "high naval and military authorities" who have failed "to evaluate what is information to which the public is entitled." The newsmen corroborated Nicholas Roosevelt, who resigned in frustration a month ago as Army-Navy liaison man for OWI, reporting he was regarded as an interloper. Worst offender: the Navy...
Thus Boss Petrillo won complete victory in the boycott he has enforced against new recordings-despite an anti-trust suit, pleas by OWI Director Elmer Davis and a Senate investigation-for 14 months. The "dough" was royalties ranging from ¼? to 5?, a tribute which Decca will pay into the union treasury for every record it sells. If all record companies sign, the union will receive about $500,000 a year, perhaps as much as $3,000,000 a year when the wartime shellac shortage ends...
...Britain on a good-will tour went ten Americans, each with some claim to fame, chosen by the Office of War Information. OWI considers each an expert on some phase of U.S. wartime living, will introduce them to appropriate audiences to talk and answer questions...
...year ago, alarmed by widespread and contradictory criticism of U.S. combat planes and its effect on morale, OWI made a survey, published a report. Its warning: no plane can be found good, bad or indifferent until it has met its final test-battle. Its "verdict: although U.S. air power had been caught short of many necessaries (e.g., radio detectors, a system of bases), the U.S. combat .planes that had jought up to the time of the report had already been proven superior to the enemy's, on average. This week TIME updates OWI's report...