Word: rivalled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...longer is the exclusive music mill for radio. BMI, into which the radio industry has poured some $2,000,000, will continue as an ASCAP rival...
...against war), 62,394, or 80.79%. These figures checked almost exactly with Dr. Gallup's month-by-month poll of Illinois sentiment. Obvious conclusion: Colonel McCormick would have saved thousands of dollars by reading Dr. Gallup's polls, which regularly appear in the rival Chicago Daily News...
...radio's song pool, sent out royalty checks for the first quarter of 1941, threw Tin Pan Alley into an uproar. Stunned were BMItes, accustomed to a fat swag from 27-year-old rival ASCAP, to receive amounts as small as $2.45. While victims screamed that they were robbed, BMI last week made a hasty checkup, discovered that a honeymoon-struck accountant had figured into the publishers royalties everything but the big item, payments for radio network performances...
Soon booming away with ad lib gags, Broadcaster Godfrey was frightened in 1934 when NBC, with a lot of ballyhoo, announced a rival morning show. He decided to broadcast all night before his rival took to the air, on the theory that people would tune in on him in the morning just to see if he were still there. They...
...airlines have griped about suspending a few schedules. But over two points they are bitter: 1) While they cut services, rival Trans-Canada Air Lines (Canadian Government-owned) booms ahead. With 22 new American-built Lock-heeds, it has upped transcontinental runs since January, even inaugurated three daily Toronto-New York round trips in the last three months. 2) Many of the 16 ships given to Britain two months ago are still waiting at U.S. airports for pilots to fly them away...