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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Merchants complained to the federal government that both papers refused to mention the radio stations, and canceled or turned down newspaper advertising contracts with businessmen who bought radio time. When the Horvitz brothers applied for licenses to start their own radio stations, they were turned down by FCC last year because of their record of "suppressing competition and establishing [advertising] monopolies...
Amos 'n' Andy (Sun. 7:30 p.m., CBS). Back for the 22nd year...
Since that first year of the Atomic Age, methods of observing such effects have improved enormously. U.S. airplanes, patrolling the perimeter of the U.S.S.R., were equipped to collect enough radioactive dust in air filters or electrostatic precipitators to prove that an atomic cloud had risen somewhere in the interior. Ground observers in some such place as Alaska could have spotted the cloud's radioactivity by means of instruments...
...whopping sum be enough to pay for the support program? As farmers wound up the harvest of the second biggest crop in U.S. history, CCC's present bankroll seemed none too fat. The corn crop alone might hit 3.5 billion bushels and granaries were still clogged by last year's 805 million bushel surplus...
...bumper crops would not bring cheap food; the support program would keep most prices up, despite the huge surpluses. During fiscal 1949, CCC poured out $3.1 billion for loans and purchases to keep up prices on 31 commodities, just about five times the outlay in 1948. At the fiscal year's end in June, the agency had $2.3 billion tied up in loans and inventories, showing a paper loss of $356 million for the year at current market prices. Most of the support money went for only seven commodities: cotton, $822 million; corn, $470 million; wheat, $640 million; flaxseed...