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Other TV manufacturers were not standing still. To snag the high-price trade, Du Mont Laboratories, Inc. last week brought out a console model with a 19-in. tube (the biggest ever made), to sell for $725. Magnavox Co. bragged that its three new 16-in. sets had the largest picture area (148 sq. in. v. the usual 126) of any 16-in. set now on the market (prices: $399-5° to $595). Westinghouse Electric Corp., to calm dealers' fears of inventory losses, adopted the policy of guaranteeing its television dealers against loss on any price cuts that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COMMUNICATIONS: On the Beam | 8/1/1949 | See Source »

Keener came home with more than salutes; he also had $2,000,000 worth of contracts in his pocket. This week, starting a second jaunt, Sam Keener was looking forward to more salutes during his stopovers in the world's principal cities. Out of it, Keener hopes to snag additional millions in new business...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOREIGN TRADE: Lord High Engineer | 7/25/1949 | See Source »

...only snag in the initial Communist timetable (a 24-hour delay) was caused by two British ships caught in the Communist crossing east of Nanking (see below...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: Swift Disaster | 5/2/1949 | See Source »

...that the baby was being given daily airings in the palace grounds. So photographers reconnoitered the streets around "Buck House," looking for a high point from which to shoot over the iron fence and bushes into the grounds. Along Grosvenor Place, which overlooks the grounds, they ran into a snag: leases on the houses there, owned by the Duke of Westminster, prohibit tenants from creating any nuisance for their royal neighbors, so tenants were timid about cameramen. But a few lensmen talked their way to the rooftops and began a long vigil that lasted through eight rainy, cold days...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: A Royal Secret | 12/20/1948 | See Source »

Student grifters have thrown a snag into Bill Bingham's new plan to allot Stadium seats by class standing. As a result, some Seniors will have to watch the Columbia game from the 10-yard line...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Ticket-Gouging Upsets New Stadium Seating Program | 9/29/1948 | See Source »

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