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Message: <blockquote data-quote="El Mahdi" data-source="post: 5412386" data-attributes="member: 59506">Also, along with television stations/networks and newspapers, many large companies (especially advertising companies) had their own research divisions.  These research divisions were full of people specialized in researching information, from many different sources. For a humorous depiction of one such research section, watch the Katherine Hepburn/Spencer Tracy movie Desk Set (1957).  Katherine Hepburn plays a research specialist that feels threatened with having her job replaced by a computer... A 1950's character who knew someone who worked in one of these research sections, and with the right motivation (money, a bottle of bourbon, coercion, favors), might be able to get them to find the information they are looking for. Though such research would take significantly longer than today.</blockquote>