Word: scale
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...which at one time competed with W. N. U. in selling feature boiler plate, Mr. Perry has long sought control of W. N. U. Two years ago, he barely missed it when W. N. U. called off a plan to throw itself into 77-B bankruptcy to scale down interest payments (TIME, April 27, 1936). Last month, he bought enough voting trust certificates and common stock shares to give him controlling interest, was elected president of W. N. U. to succeed Herbert Henry Fish who had served for 20 years. W. N. U. Directors R. Hosken Damon and Homer...
Sandwiched neatly between winter boom and summer slump of sponsored radio, the week of March 6 was chosen by the Federal Communications Commission's statisticians as typical for their first large-scale survey of what was coming over the air. Reports from 633 stations, released last week, revealed the percentage of broad casting time given to the seven major types of radio programs. One item surprised listeners...
...group turns so jaundiced an eye on radio as the American Federation of Musicians. Large scale dispenser of music, relatively small-scale employer of musicians, the industry looks to organized musicmakers like a mechanized monster which sent battalions into unemployment. Three years ago the Federation's New York Local 802 attacked dance-band programs piped into the studios from outside and then broadcast. They argued that musicians on such programs were doing two jobs for the price of one, demanded a fee ($3 per man per broadcast on network stations, less on local stations) to be paid for remote...
...rehearses a symphony orchestra, shaped each musical phrase and each dramatic moment to fit, coordinated the action of the characters down to the 'slightest detail. By performance time they had done some 200 hours of solo, group and general rehearsing, far more than the most lavishly financed large-scale opera house could have afforded for a standard production...
...Francisco, in Chicago and Dallas, Tex. And although its total sale fell slightly short of Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings' The Yearling, it was head and shoulders above rivals in its own field, and the only work of non-fiction in the past season to sell on the scale of best-selling novels...