Word: station
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Time Inc. agreed to exchange roughly 325,000 shares of its common stock and take over a News mortgage debt of about $5,000,000, in return for all the stock of the Evening News Publishing Co. of Newark. The News Co., however, will retain ownership of Newark radio station WVNJ as well as the Garden State Paper...
...Teen-agers are not only getting department store and local bank credit cards [Feb. 2], but many fathers are giving sons and daughters travel and entertainment cards too. They find this not only gives children the equivalent of emergency cash for airline tickets and service-station expenses, but also gives them facilities to eat, lodge and shop. There are few cases of overspending-and the rare ones that do occur are easily controlled when the parent gets his monthly bill...
...Absence of O'Hara. There was a great deal that wanted altering in lona Station, Ont., the dour, Scot-dominated farming community in which Galbraith grew up. "It was a dreadfully barren existence up there," says his younger sister, Mrs. Catherine Denholm, now a resident of the pleasant town of Elora, Ont. "It was totally arid." William Galbraith, a schoolteacher turned farmer, was a 6-ft. 8-in. giant like his son, but unlike him in other respects. Shy and modest, he nonetheless became a leading light in the local branch of the Liberal Party...
...wizardry that was right out of Star Trek. The dour visage of le grand Charles picked up by the color cameras was fed to a control unit at the Olympic stadium, beamed to ABC headquarters in Grenoble, relayed by cable to Paris, and then to the French satellite ground station at Plumeur-Bodou. There the video signal was converted into a radio signal, bounced off the Early Bird satellite hovering 22,300 miles over the Atlantic, picked up and reconverted by a receiving station in Andover, Me., relayed by cable and microwave through ABC in New York City...
...dollar he made while in high school-some $500-he invested and promptly lost, but his infatuation with the stock market continued. A junior-year dropout from California State College, he amassed $10,000 in such small business ventures as building concrete aprons for driveways and operating a gas station, before going to work for Bache & Co. as an assistant broker at $217 a month in 1956. Ten years later, when he joined Shareholders Management Co. of Los Angeles, which operates Enterprise Fund, he was able to buy a 20% interest. Today Carr's personal worth is estimated...