Word: programing
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Last week both NBC and CBS got ready for more action on the Latin-American front. Back from Latin America with a report on radio conditions was NBC Short-Wave Program Director Guy Hickok; preparing to leave on an inspection tour this week was a trio of CBS bigwigs-President William S. Paley, News Chief Paul White, and the recently appointed Director of Latin-American Relations, Edmund Chester, former head of A. P.'s Latin-American Division...
Most successful U. S. short-wave broadcast to date was the airing last February of the bout between Joe Louis and Arturo Godoy, the Chilean heavyweight champion of South America. Sponsored by Standard Oil Co. of N. J. over NBC, the program was picked up by 130 local stations scattered through the Caribbean, Mexico, Central and South America. NBC is the only short-wave operator that has as yet devoted much time to commercial programs...
...order to distinguish between Americans of the North and of the South, CBS uses the Spanish coagulation "Estadouni-dense" (United Staters) for the Latin-American trade. Star broadcast of CBS to Latin America is their School of the Air program, which now reaches fifteen million children in the Western Hemisphere...
...from Buenos Aires last month that the Export-Import Bank was lending Argentina $20,000,000 for any use she might want to put it to in the U. S. (TIME, Oct. 7). Since Argentina needed industrial equipment and supplies for her new 1,000,000,000-peso arms program, Pierson's announcement seemed to forecast a new era of U. S.-Argentine cooperation...
...Laski, World War II is 1) a symptom that capitalist democracy can no longer solve its own economic and social problems; 2) a heaven-sent chance to ram through, under the guise of wartime necessity, radical social changes that citizens would never stand for in peacetime. Laski calls his program "revolution by consent." He proposes that the owners of property consent to what they cannot prevent...