Word: station
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...trigger-tempered Ross Siragusa of Admiral Radio, who got wind that the ad was to run and fired a volley of telegrams to newspapers warning them to check with the FCC before running it. Eleven of the 41 newspapers in Zenith's schedule canceled the ad. The TV-station-owning Detroit News ran it, but also published an answer. Gist of the News''s retort: "Anyone . . . who denies himself . . . the thrill of television because of 'frequency changes' could grow old and grey waiting for the change that may never come...
Empire Abuilding. In the past three years, McCarthy has galloped off in all directions. He bought a radio station, a cluster of throwaway newspapers, a Detroit steel plant (to get pipe), export and import companies, a chemical firm...
Most startling, perhaps, for U.S. moviegoers are the shots of India's modern commerce and industry: the streamlined tentacles of Air-India operating over 6,000 miles of airways; its vast, nationalized (but hardly modernized) railroad system, fourth largest in the world; the radio station at New Delhi, looking like a maharaja's palace; and its huge cotton mills. The film is cut and paced to make forcefully clear the disorder and vitality, the sloth and aspiration of an ancient country in the process of becoming a modern nation...
...decided that fresh blood outside the University was vitally necessary. We would try maids, ask men on the street, quiz gas station attendants. The top man vowed that the average citizen in lonely nowadays and will leap at any chance to attend parties and pick up easy money...
...imagine "Faust" and "The Devil and Daniel Webster" sloppily clad in a 20th Century plot, with Ray Milland as Beelzebub, and you get some idea of what "Alias Nick Beal" is about. And if you've heard the voice on that certain local radio station warning you "never make a dealllll with Nick Bealllll," you have the complete picture...