Word: mile
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...story RCA Building, largest office building in the world, the headstone of the group; the 50-mile view from its roof; 30,000 square feet of roof area on its eleventh floor; National Broadcasting Co.'s 35 radio and television studios, in which 20,000,000 cubic feet of air circulate every hour; its transparent woman with the illuminated organs...
...work in record time, night shifts work under floodlights. Throughout the city, as new buildings go up, old ones have come down, but around the Palace whole blocks have been demolished to make a new Royal Square between the Calea Victoriei and Boulevard Bratianu, a quarter of a mile away. Centerpiece of this new square will be the equestrian statue of Rumania's first Hohenzollern King, Carol I. Meanwhile, Carol II is staying at Cotroceni Palace, his late mother's favorite home, on the outskirts of town...
Obstacles. First job of any new network is leasing point-to-point A. T. & T. circuits, which cost basically $8 a mile for a month of 16-hour radio days. A. T. & T. seldom has an oversupply of coast-to-coast circuits. Network men on the outside withheld judgment on TBS's prospects until they could find out: 1) whether TBS could get wire lines; 2) whether the business it had lined up would warrant an annual outlay of $800,000 to $1,000,000 for lines; 3) whether it could keep enough important stations in line to survive...
When Harvard's Varsity harriers string out along the starting line of New York's five-mile Van Courtland Park course this morning they will be favored to cop top honors in the first annual Heptagonal cross-country meet...
...Crimson leader was rated the third best tankman in the land for any distance from 440 yards to one mile. He trailed Carlos Rivas of Honolulu and Harold "Curly" Stanhope of Ohio State University in the selections...