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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...licensee shall permit any person who is a legally qualified candidate for any public office to use a broadcasting station, he shall afford equal opportunities to all other such candidates for that office in the use of such broadcasting station, and the Commission shall make rules and regulations to carry this provision into effect: PROVIDED, that such licensee shall have no power of censorship over the material broadcast under the provisions of this section. No obligation is hereby imposed upon any licensee to allow the use of its station by any such candidate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Question | 7/4/1938 | See Source »

...before his Commission the question of promulgating rules for distributing time to political candidates. A formal petition for campaign regulations recently came from station WTAR (Norfolk, Va.). WTAR was tired of having to take on itself the politically dangerous (as well as costly) responsibility of allotting politicians the use of its station...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Question | 7/4/1938 | See Source »

With orders to buy 50, 100, 200, 500 shares of leading industrial stocks, trading in the first hour whopped up to 250,000 shares. Last fall in an optimistic moment, the Exchange devised a system of FLASH quotations for use whenever the ticker got five minutes behind. Last week it had a chance to use it for the first time. FLASH-X (U. S. Steel) 49⅞. FLASH-A (Anaconda Copper) 28. FLASH-T (American Tel & Tel) 140½. When the clay's closing bell bonged, brokers had enjoyed the first million-share day since May, Dow-Jones industrial...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: First FLASHes | 7/4/1938 | See Source »

...Other cigaret companies could pass this on to the consumer. Philip Morris to maintain its fixed price policy must either absorb the tax or reduce its famed dealer profit margin. So far the dealer has either absorbed it or charged 16?. Philip Morris may therefore be forced to use a stunt it tried before-giving dealers one pack free with every carton they buy, thus compensating the reduced profit margin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: A New Fourth | 7/4/1938 | See Source »

...turn the property over to National Park Service, which may restore the picturesque taverns and lock houses flanking the waterway. The 22-mile section between Washington and Point of Rocks, Md., it may turn into a boating and canoeing paradise. There were also rumors of an elaborate scheme to use part of the canal as right-of-way for a national highway between Washington and Gettysburg...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Canal Rescue | 7/4/1938 | See Source »

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