Word: sarnoff
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sucking oxygen and the windows curtained with frost, it nosed high enough over the earth's curvature so that it was on a theoretical eyeline with W2XBS. Suddenly on the mirror-screen of the receiver appeared the image of Herluf Provensen, NBC announcer. He introduced RCA President David Sarnoff, United Air Lines President William Allan Patterson. As they chatted, a photographer aboard the plane set up his camera. "Smile," he said into the radiophone. Presidents Sarnoff and Patterson obediently smiled, were mugged 200 miles away...
...Reporting the new crisis that demonstrated how much more important it had become, Radio went into action with 774 stations, with radio sets in 26,666,000 American homes, with RCA its No. 1 radio corporation, its President David Sarnoff the U. S. No. 1 radioman...
...make a series of special recordings, guaranteeing their cost ($150,000) should the venture fail. The music to be recorded was chosen by the Post's Musicritic Samuel Chotzinoff, a key figure in the plan because he is close to RCA's front door: its President David Sarnoff is his good friend. Keeping it under their hats, such orchestras as the New York Philharmonic, the New Friends of Music Orchestra recorded such works as the Beethoven Fifth Symphony, the Mozart G-Minor Symphony. Post readers could get each album (three or more disks) by presenting 24 vouchers clipped...
Three immigrants, now U. S. citizens, were awarded annual scrolls of the National Institute of Immigrant Welfare for "significant contributions to American life": Russian-born David Sarnoff, 48, President of R. C. A.; Scotland-born William Allan Neilson, 70, President of Smith College; Moravian-born Albin Polasek, 60, famed Chicago sculptor...
...wireless operator on Great Lakes steamers about the time radio got into the dictionary. He left the sea to manage a wireless station in Cleveland, became chief operator, then supervisor of the Great Lakes Division of Marconi Wireless Telegraph Co., whence he was hired by RCA's David Sarnoff as his assistant. When RCA bought Victor Talking Machine Co. he was put in charge of Radiola sales. He got into televison in 1934 when RCA promoted him to manager of its license division. For running Farnsworth, 45-year-old Edward Nicholas will get a block of stock...