Word: shutdowns
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...these were only temporary trials. Last year's brief shutdown by the F.C.C., when the station's radiation output was too high, was only one of a long series of radiation problems...
...Bernstein ignored the warning and kept on working, but without the old zip and zest. Last May he had a real heart attack-a shutdown in a branch of the artery which feeds the heart muscle. He recalls that after he went back to work, "when I went to sleep I wasn't sure I'd wake up. I lived in fear." So far his history had paralleled that of hundreds of thousands of U.S. victims of coronary disease...
...second week of the shutdown, Pittsburgh's 3,000 to 3,500 copies of out-of-town dailies made up the major supply of newspapers for a city which normally buys 800,000 papers a day. Early every morning, long lines queued up outside the city's newsstands to scramble for them. Since harried news vendors favored only regular customers, a lively grey market soon started. One surprised traveler, alighting at the railroad station with a Sunday New York Times, was handed 50? for his day-old newspaper. Metropolitan sales of Pittsburgh's Negro weekly, the Courier...
Also pleasing to the W.T. & S. was the way readers and advertising were back. With press runs of 700,000 copies (circulation for three months ending March 31: 612,468), and ad-packed editions running from 34 to 46 pages, the paper looked as if the long shutdown had cost it few readers...
Like many another country doctor, Dr. Leander C. Bryan of Rutledge, Tenn. (pop. 518) had fumed & fussed for years over poor telephone service. Things came to a head in 1936 when the dilapidated telephone system was threatened with a complete shutdown. Nobody else wanted to buy the decrepit concern, with only 36 subscribers, so Dr. Bryan took it over himself for $600 in order to keep in touch with his widely scattered patients...