Word: ross
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Some of the major producers, among them R.C.A. and Philco, were still holding out, but few radiomen thought that they would for long. The price-cutting fever had also infected the television business.* The big news came from Admiral Corp.'s hard-hitting President Ross D. Siragusa, who parlayed a backroom radio shop into the fourth biggest radio business in the country. Last week, he came out with a table television receiver (seven-inch screen), retailing at $169.95, the cheapest ever to go on sale...
Harry Truman put off the disagreeable job of ousting Landis until almost the last minute. When he got around to it, 72 hours before the deadline, he did it with unusual bluntness. White House Secretary Charles G. Ross gave a bare announcement that the President did not intend to reappoint Chairman Landis...
RAINTREE COUNTY (1,066 pp.) - Ross Lockridge Jr. - Houghton Mifflin...
...below. It was the National Union of Journalists that started the parliamentary ball rolling for a Royal Commission to investigate whether Britain's press is monopolistic. Now that the commission has settled down to work, the press isn't so alarmed. Oxford's Sir William David Ross, the chairman, is a gentleman and a scholar, and no man to let Labor...
Chester M. Pierce, Gordon P. Reed, Walter E. Robb III, Oliver W. Roosevelt, Jr., Thorvald S. Ross, Jr., Charles H. Sammond, Jr., E.W. Dan Stevens...