Word: 1930s
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Pantomime Quiz is based on the old parlor game of charades, and particularly on its more sophisticated descendant, The Game, which became popular in the 1930s. While attending Los Angeles City College in 1939, Stokey and other students played The Game on experimental TV (call letters: W6XAO) from a tiny studio over a car dealer's garage. "There were probably more people in the studio than there were viewers," Stokey recalls, "but even then I felt it was undeniable TV material." After a stint as an NBC announcer and 3½ years' war service in the Air Force...
...times, Erhard's fight-which Germans jestingly called "the Seven Years' War"-seemed hopeless. No European nation had ever adopted a law comparable to the Sherman Act, and none appeared less likely to do so than Germany, fatherland of the classic cartel. (In the mid-1930s, experts estimated that nearly 2,000 cartel agreements were in force in German industry.) Already chafing under the decartelization imposed on them by the Allies at the end of World War II, West German industrialists (who furnish the ruling Christian Democratic Party with much of its funds) were in no mood...
...impassioned young men who led Burma's struggle for independence in the 1930s, "capitalism" was an ugly word, almost as bad as "colonialism," with which it was inextricably associated. In 1950, after the erstwhile rebels had become the rulers of an independent Burma, Premier U Nu bluntly defined their goal: "the constitution of a socialist state...
...like man of 85. Former President Alexander Meiklejohn (pronounced Meekle-john) back at Amherst for an official visit, was the hit of the reunion show -as mild-mannered and spry as ever, but still very much the maverick who stirred up some of the biggest educational storms of the 1930s...
...1930s, pull-out sofa beds cut into Murphy's markets. World War II housing regulations hurt them more by classifying the beds as furniture instead of structural built-ins, cutting them out of mortgage packages. Progress and Government rules folded Murphy bed sales. To recoup, Murphy concentrated on selling "efficiency" kitchens for small apartments. Last year his Murphy Door Bed Co. sold only 10,000 letdown beds, making most of its $1,000,000 sales from kitchen units. Last week, as the company planned a comeback in house-trailer Murphy beds, Inventor Murphy died at 81 in Belle Vista...