Word: publicize
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...American Airway's man, Gene Summers, was at Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, contending with Brazil's Secretary of Public Works Victor Konder for Brazilian air mail contracts, which would profit Pan- American when it extends its lines down around the east coast to Buenos Aires...
...rope in the entire South American continent with air lines. To the winners (for no one of the five major con tenders is likely to gain monopoly in any one region) great profits are in store. There is mail to be carried and the governments as a matter of public policy pay handsomely.* Although none of the lines expect to carry much bulky express for years to come, there are precious diamonds, emeralds, sapphires, egret feathers and in districts where businessmen distrust checks, cash to be carried...
Federal Radio Commission reconsidered. Month ago, it changed its plans, ordered that one public utility press corporation be formed through which all member news companies might send their news. To the new company would be allocated 30 transoceanic channels immediately, plus 20 transcontinental channels so soon as "need" was shown for them. All newspapers, all press associations could subscribe to the corporation's stock...
...Macfaddist, had gotten sick of the daily freak he had created to please Publisher Macfadden. The Graphic, a pink tabloid with the slogan "nothing but the truth," is scarcely newspaper. Torch murders, gang war, divorce cases, scandal, gossip, rumor, crime, are its main contents, dished up for an illiterate public with girl pictures, fan tastic "composographs" and "editorials" by unique Bernarr Macfadden...
...solved a problem. Confronted by many a press demand for the few remaining short-wave-length radio channels not in use, the Commission allocated 20 transcontinental channels for the sole use of newspapers and press associations to transmit news. Under the American Publishers Committee, a number of public utility corporations were to be formed to handle wireless press matter. But the problem was not solved, the Commission soon discovered. Loud were the cries of newspapers and news services charging unequal allotment, curtailment of their radio press facilities, expense of organization...