Public Budgeting Systems or The Magic Window

Public Budgeting Systems

Author: Robert D D Le

This edition emphasizes methods by which financial decisions are reached within a system, as well as ways in which different types of information are used in budgetary decision-making.

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New edition of a general examination of public budgeting that surveys the current state of the art among all levels of government in the US. Covers the distinction between the public and private sectors, budget cycles, budget preparation, approval and execution of a budget, financial management, and intergovernmental relations. The authors stress the use of program information since budget reforms for decades have sought to introduce greater program considerations into financial decisions. Intended primarily for budget practitioners and scholars. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

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The Magic Window: American Television, 1939-1953

Author: James A Von Schilling

This book tells the story of how television became popular in the United States following the medium's debut at the 1939 New York World's Fair. You'll learn about the people, events, and performances that were televised - or influenced what was being televised - from 1939 to 1953. In addition to the entertainment and cultural aspects of this newborn medium, The Magic Window also explores the business, politics, and technology of early television.

Table of Contents:

	Preface
Ch. 1	The Beginning of Everything	1
	Television's Debut	1
	The Jenkins Television System	2
	RCA Television	4
	Television's First Season	8
	Test-marketing in Newburgh	10
	The FCC's First Report on TV	12
	The Amber Light	15
	Hearings in Washington	18
Ch. 2	A Torch of Hope	21
	The Future Appears in Newburgh	21
	The War in Europe	22
	The 1940 Republican Convention	24
	A Disappointing Fall	28
	Debating TV's Future in 1941	30
Ch. 3	In a Troubled World	33
	The 1941 FCC Hearings	33
	The Beginning of Commercial TV	35
	The Summer of 1941	38
	The Buildup to War	40
	Wartime Television	42
	Schenectady's WRGB	45
	Plans for Postwar TV	47
	Television As a War Weapon	48
	The Studios Reopen	50
	TV's First Censored Program	53
Ch. 4	The Winds of Postwar	55
	The Homefront TV War	55
	The 1944 Conventions	56
	TV Programs Blossom Again	59
	Docket No. 6651	61
	TV and the End of the War	64
Ch. 5	Turning the Corner	69
	The Camera with the Eyes of a Cat	69
	TV Begins in Washington	70
	The Louis-Conn Fight	72
	Hour Glass	73
	The New Postwar Sets	74
	The Bikini Bomb Explosion	77
	Surveying the TV Viewer	78
	The Emerging Genres	79
	Drama in Washington	81
	The First Color Telecasts	82
	Integration on TV	84
	The Second Wave of TV Stations	85
	The "Split" TV Audience	87
	Television and Women	89
	Middlebrow Television	91
Ch. 6	From Boom to Berle	93
	The 1947 World Series	93
	Puppet Playhouse	95
	The Expanding Network	97
	The "Original Amateur" Network	99
	"Miss Television of 1948"	101
	"Mr. Television"	102
	The 1948 Conventions	104
	The Cold War on Television	107
	CBS's Revival	108
	The Big Freeze	109
	The 1948 Election	110
	Selling Sugar and Tobacco	112
	Radio Takes Notice	114
Ch. 7	Conflicts in the Air	117
	Kukla, Fran and Ollie	117
	The Cultural Backlash Begins	118
	Censoring TV's Contents	119
	The "Golden Hope" and The Goldbergs	121
	The Admiral Broadway Revue	123
	The Berle Phenomenon	125
	A Midseason Slump	127
	Wrestling and Roller Derby	128
	The 1949 World Series	130
	The Chicago School of Television	131
	Cavalcade of Stars	133
	Hopalong Cassidy	135
	The New Bomb and the "Red Scare"	137
	Faye Emerson	140
	TV's Effects on Children	141
Ch. 8	Comics and Communists	145
	Your Show of Shows	145
	The "Bandit Raid" on Korea	147
	Red Channels	149
	The Invasion of Comics	152
	Jack Benny and Fred Allen	154
	Groucho Marx and Martin and Lewis	156
	Jackie Gleason and the Cavalcade of Stars	158
	Truman and MacArthur	160
	Expanding the Daily Schedule	162
Ch. 9	Linking Coast to Coast	165
	Color TV Begins	165
	The Crime Commission Hearings	166
	Amos 'n' Andy	168
	Hollywood and the Coast-to-Coast Link	170
	The Birth of I Love Lucy	173
	The "Hollywood Boom" Begins	175
	The Today Show	177
	New Hampshire and "Ike"	179
	The Freeze Is Lifted	180
	Lucy Takes Over	182
	The 1952 Conventions	183
	Congress and the Code	186
	The FCC and Blacklisting	187
	Dragnet	189
	Live Drama from New York	190
Ch. 10	Liking Ike and Loving Lucy	195
	The Checkers Speech	195
	Lucy Is Pregnant	197
	Ozzie and Harriet	198
	See It Now	199
	The Birth and the Inauguration	202
	The ABC-Paramount Merger	203
	The End of the Du Mont Network	205
	The End of the Beginning	206
	Notes	211
	Index	227