Word: pontiacs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Radio. National Broadcasting Co. dropped 70 employes in November, a few weeks before General Motors' discontinued its Sunday Symphony, Chevrolet's Romantic Rhythms (CBS) and Pontiac's Varsity Show. But NBC's 1937 take for radio time turned out to be $125,000,000, an 18% increase over the previous year. Thirty-six new stations were licensed during the year. As further evidence of good health, last week the three big networks contracted for 1,000 additional musicians...
...year ago in a General Motors' Fisher Body plant in Atlanta. Last week, appropriately if unconsciously, a group of rebel United Automobile Workers celebrated that Sit-Down's first anniversary by sitting down once in the Detroit Cadillac plant, twice in the Fisher Body plant in Pontiac, where 14,700 General Motors workers were promptly thrown out of work.* Outlawed by the union, unsupported by officers of the local, the second Fisher Body strike was soon down to something like old times with the Sit-Downers holding a week-end dance in the plant cafeteria...
...eighth of Davidson's student body of 600 will be here today for the game, in the form of 60 members of the band and 24 of the football squad. The band, which has played regularly over the Southern Network, last night topped its career by broadcasting on the Pontiac Hour over the National Broadcasting Company's network...
...school film entitled The Bride Wakes Up and heard from the folksy syndicate poet. Edgar A. Guest. Ford Motor Co. scheduled a lunch at Dearborn Inn, a trip through Greenfield Village and a speech by its official spokesman, William J. Cameron. General Motors Corp. offered a tour of its Pontiac plant and a free Pontiac to the editor who would write and publish the best story about Michigan...
...sympathy strike in Lansing had gone on all day with the United Auto Workers and sympathizers augmented by some 5,000 members from nearby Flint and Pontiac. But while downtown was literally mad, East Lansing, three miles distant, was minding its own affairs, college students were attending classes as usual. At 4:10 p. m. an unauthorized "flying squadron" made up of the prime downtown hell-raisers entered East Lansing with an eye to closing business establishments and the restaurants. These first 60-odd men closed all stores along the main street with the exception of one-a pocket...