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Roundup

11-3-06

This week in business history [audio 1min]

This week back in 1920, Pittsburgh radio station KDKA broadcast the results of the presidential race between Warren G. Harding and James Cox. It was the nation's first major public news broadcast. Report by Stacey Vanek-Smith.

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