Word: segments
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...radio's fiercely fought Battle of Sunday Night, CBS seemed to be winning over rival NBC. In every time segment from 6:30 p.m. to 8 p.m., according to last week's Hooperatings, CBS had piled up a commanding lead. Jack Benny, moving from NBC to CBS, not only carried most of his listening audience with him but appeared to have bolstered CBS shows before & after his program. On CBS at 6:30, ear-jarring Spike Jones had climbed a few pegs, while Ozzie & Harriet on NBC dropped a few. Horace Heidt, hastily switched by NBC from...
...photographer will be in 26 Little Hall every day until the deadline to take care of a large segment of the class that did not respond to earlier calls...
Before the Eighty-First Congress checks out of Washington in 1950, the chances are that it will have passed a bill giving substantial aid to American education. The Democrats are pledged to such legislation, and President Truman has been championing it for some time. A considerable segment of the Republican party also favors educational aid appropriations--in fact, a bill sponsored by Senator Taft got through the Senate last April, and probably would have been passed in the House, if it had reached the floor before the summer adjournment...
When the time came for assembling all this material coherently, Researcher Mary Elizabeth Fremd took over. The result of all this work was a no-page report covering the year's economy, segment by segment, giving the pertinent opinions of outstanding business and government leaders, earnings figures, a chronology of events, new products, debt-financing and its inflationary effect, etc. Altogether, her report listed about 10,000 confirmed figures...
This he termed "a fair deal." The New Deal for the American people is no longer "new." It is, as Truman said, what "every segment of our population and every individual has a right to expect from his government." Truman wants to extend and correct this program. Part of his message was directed at the short-range danger of inflation and threats of a recession, but more significant was the long-range schedule of needed social legislation, proposals that will be fought all the way by the "gluttons of privilege" he blasted in the fall campaign...