Word: wsb
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Grabbing up his seersucker coat and panama hat, Talmadge II limped forth for his victory address, leaning on the cane he has used since his auto accident with a blonde ex-secretary in July. Then he hustled over to the Atlanta Journal to repeat his message over Station WSB...
...reception hall of the Atlanta Journal's 50,000-watt Station WSB ("Welcome South, Brother"), hang three plaques-awards from Variety for outstanding community service. Last week Manager John M. Outler tacked up a telegram announcing that the station had just won a fourth-for improvement of race relations in race-riven Georgia...
...celebrated its 25th anniversary, WSB could look back on an impressive list of good works. The station gives free time to local universities-not excluding Atlanta University (for Negroes). Farmers get a daily hour (5:30-6:30 a.m.) of down-to-earth farm news, plus such extras as gifts of bred ewes to 4-H Clubbers. And with its parent paper (TIME, March 17), WSB watches "Hummon" Talmadge like a chicken hawk...
...WSB's greatest public service, in the minds of many Georgians, has been its de-emphasis of advertising. After 17 prosperous years of broadcasting commercials, the station still gets along with a one-man sales department. Says Manager Outler: "If you gain the confidence of your community, all you need in your sales department is a wide transom over the door and a big basket under the transom...
...WSB chairman also ventured that in the light of these developments the government would turn back the mines to private operation before the present June 30 deadline. The miners and operators will have to negotiate a new contract before the end of June, he said, if the handing back is to take place ahead of schedule...