Word: wor
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...their dividends from 50? to 40? a share, the stockholders turned on Straus. Macy's sales had slipped 5-5% in the year just ended; earnings had tumbled from $2.51 a share to only 98?. Except for the $2,800,000 realized on the sale of station WOR, Macy's profits would have hit their lowest point since 1942. Jack Straus said that Macy's showing was caused by unusual circumstances: 1) losses during the Macy-Gimbels price war last year, 2) the high cost of installing TV sets, and 3) big inventories held in expectation...
...surve got through. An official Board of Social ar Economic Relations was set up, to get in the field now dominated in the church t the unofficial, embarrassingly left-wir Methodist Federation for Social Actk (TIME, May 5). The delegates also askc that the federation remove the wor "Methodist" from its title...
Instead of doing a live TV drama just once and then forgetting about it, Broadway TV Theater repeats the same play on five consecutive nights over Manhattan's station WOR-TV. TV producers like the idea because it saves on sets, actors' salaries and programming. Actors like it because it gives them a chance to be seen night after night, just as in the theater, and eases the feverish pressures of TV acting...
...only imponderable was: Would televiewers like it? Last week WOR-TV announced the result of a research test by Pulse: Broadway TV Theater, in its first week on the air, drew a rating of 32.3, higher than that of any other New York TV dramatic show...
...radios" were crystal sets fashioned from bits of wire, smuggled crystals and makeshift diaphragms. Though primitive, the sets easily picked up broadcasts from a nearby transmitter tower of Manhattan's station WOR...