Word: rca
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...under Major General Heinter Poorten. Aneta, the official Dutch news agency, cabled a last, bitter account of a country lost for want of a few ships, a few hundred planes, a few thousand well-armed troops. A Dutch dispatcher, radiophoning commercial messages (in English) to RCA. spoke the last word from Java: "We are shutting down now. Good-by till better times. Long live the Queen...
...product of the RCA research laboratories, the siren, which reputedly possesses an audible range of three miles, has been tested in various parts of Cambridge to find a location where it can be heard in all parts of the city...
...TIME, May 12, Oct. 20), has swelled gently in two directions like a cell about to divide. Last week the outlines of approaching division became clearer. NBC announced separate staffs for its Red and Blue networks, announced further that the Blue Network Co. would provisionally become a subsidiary of RCA on the same footing as NBC, and more importantly let it be known that various prospective buyers were dickering for the Blue. If such a deal goes through, NBC's Red and the Blue Network Co. will be genuine competitors -one of the objectives of FCC's campaign...
...These powerful and wealthy stockholders of Mutual represent an aggregation of assets, business and profits greatly exceeding those of NBC and RCA. . . . This new suit by Mutual provides an opportunity to expose the motives behind the campaign to break down the networks of the National Broadcasting Co. . . . [Mutual] entered the field only after others risked their capital and demonstrated that broadcasting could be conducted as a sound business enterprise. . . . Despite all the so-called restrictions in the competitive network field from which Mutual claims to suffer, it has increased its revenue in 1941 over...
...America-whose activities included not only NBC but the manufacture of its equipment, the sale of radio sets, the management of artists, a share (through RKO) in the production of movies, the manufacture of movie sound equipment, phonograph records, etc. But FCC did not observe how nearly indispensable to RCA is NBC's earning power...