Radio: Watch Liberty Grow

"We have never sought national publicity," said President Gordon McLendon of the Liberty Broadcasting System, "because we wanted to gain as much strength as possible before other networks found out what was happening to them. But now we're ready." One of the main reasons why McLendon's Texas-born Liberty network was ready last week was a visit he paid to Houston's oil-rich Hugh Roy Cullen. The $1,000,000 Cullen agreed to invest in Liberty was enough to make him a partner in a network that has become the nation's second biggest in number of stations.*

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