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...same national hookup, Montana's Senator Burton K. Wheeler added: "If we have $4,000,000,000 more to give away, let us turn our attention to the United States, where ... we have millions of veterans coming back . . . and slums all over. . . . First of all I am thinking of the United States of America...
...radio show (national hookup) gave a veteran soldier and amateur sculptor some clay, told him to make a statue of his wife, and notified all and sundry listeners that this work, encased in sort of permanent coating, would be shipped to New York to be conspicuously placed in its park system...
...cost some $5,000,000 (largely donated by the Rockefellers), and is one of Manhattan's sightseeing land marks. Fosdick's Sunday morning sermons, delivered from a marble pulpit, attracted capacity (2,500) congregations. Millions more heard his Sunday afternoon sermons, broadcast over a national hookup from his 18th-floor tower study. He received 125,000 letters a year from his radio talks alone. Meanwhile, he continued to teach at Union Theological Seminary, continued to turn out popular books (A Guide to Understanding the Bible, On Being a Real Person...
...some seven minutes the dominant voice on the U.S. air was Frank Sinatra's. The line that linked his CBS coast-to-coast hookup was on another pole...
...gone into foreign companies, exploited them to the last penny of profit, and pulled out. His own plan: to organize a Mexican company, operated by Mexicans, and paying more than lip service to the Mexican economy. For himself he asked for a fair return on his investment, a traffic hookup between his two airlines. This brand of Yankee business easily won Mexican favor, plus route privileges to Tampico, Merida, Vera Cruz...