Word: wsb
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...winners of the 14th Annual Peabody Awards, announced in Manhattan this week: RADIO NEWS: ABC's Chet Huntley (of Los Angeles station KABC), because he has "consistently demonstrated a talent for mature commentary on the controversial issues of the day." PUBLIC SERVICE (REGIONAL) : Atlanta's NBC station WSB, for adding "luster" to broadcasting with its project, Removing the Rust from Radio...
...Mont) and WRGB (Dr. W.R.G. Baker of General Electric). Some stations go in for slogans: the Chicago Tribune has long called itself the "World's Greatest Newspaper," and its radio station is consequently labeled WGN; station WIOD in Miami symbolizes "Wonderful Isle of Dreams," and Atlanta's WSB means "Welcome South, Brother." Other appropriate call letters: the coyote howl of KIYI for Shelby, Mont.; KENO for gambling-mad Las Vegas, and KAVE for New Mexico's Carlsbad Caverns...
Nevertheless, businessmen had some worries for the moment. With wage ceilings off, they faced the immediate prospect of wage boosts at a time when price controls had been lifted on only 64% of the items which make up the Government's cost-of-living index. Pending before WSB had been 9,200 requests for boosts for nearly 1,000,000 workers. Automatically the increases would now go into effect...
...Sham & Mockery." After Truman made his coal announcement, his WSB chairman resigned, the fourth man to leave that post within two years. Then five board members and two alternates, all industry representatives, quit...
...their resignation statement, the seven WSB men-all Truman appointees-said that "the wage stabilization program is now nothing but a sham and a mockery." They went on: "The consumers of this nation . . . will be called upon to pay for this special privilege to the coal miners . . . This action will result in wage increases so widespread and so large that millions of dollars will be dumped into the consumers' purchasing pool with resultant upward pressure upon all prices ... It is impossible to turn over an 'effective' program after it has been emasculated . . . What is being turned over...