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Elliott went back to his TBS, bought $75,000 worth of its stock. Hartford went back to his groceries and his worries over an anti-chain-store law which Representative Wright Patman of Texas was trying to push through Congress. If passed, the law would have cost the A. & P. many millions a year...
...Dream. In the words of Caruthers Ewing, Hartford's attorney, the situation "rocked along for a while." After several months of confused dickering, Elliott's TBS blew up. It was dumped into receivership...
...owner of 4,000 shares of TBS stock, in February 1941 Elliott filed a claim with the receivers and collected $33,438. A year later, Texas' Jesse Jones, then Secretary of Commerce, called Lawyer Ewing to tell him that (according to Ewing) "the Roosevelt family" wished to settle Elliott's debt. Lawyer Ewing turned over Elliott's note and collateral and Jones gave Ewing a cashier's check for $4,000. Said Ewing: "The whole thing was closed...
...impatience was plain over the TBS ("talk-between-ships") loudspeakers on the bridges of the U.S. ships waiting in the dark. It seemed an unconscionable time before the destroyer, her searchlight still probing, answered: "I am sorry to report it is Five Zero...
...First job of any new network is leasing point-to-point A. T. & T. circuits, which cost basically $8 a mile for a month of 16-hour radio days. A. T. & T. seldom has an oversupply of coast-to-coast circuits. Network men on the outside withheld judgment on TBS's prospects until they could find out: 1) whether TBS could get wire lines; 2) whether the business it had lined up would warrant an annual outlay of $800,000 to $1,000,000 for lines; 3) whether it could keep enough important stations in line to survive. Lacking...