Word: air
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Theatre Guild on the Air (Sun. 9:30 p.m., ABC). The Late Christopher Bean, with Irene Dunne and Thomas Mitchell...
...over so well that the Levitts bought a 1,000-acre potato farm near Hempstead, L.I., named it Levittown, and started building houses on it at the rate of 150 a week. The houses were neat and trim but so much alike that the development had a barracks-like air. But looks made little difference. By the end of last year they had finished and rented 6,000 houses (Levittown's population is now 20,000), and their gross had jumped from 1947's $20 million to twice that. As big-scale production cut costs the Levitts decided...
...upped the stake of himself and his brothers in McDonnell to $400,000 and one-fifth voting interest, had further proof that his gamble had paid off. In Muroc, Calif., McDonnell gave the public its first look at the Voodoo, a single-seater, twin-engine plane which the Air Force hopes to use as a combination fighter, fighter-bomber or bomber escort...
Hafstad's job in the AEC will require at least as much tact as physics. He will have to get along with atom-minded private companies, such as General Electric and Westinghouse, and with the Navy and Air Force, which are also atom-minded. "The intent," he says, "is to increase the tempo and get more aggressive and effective work going...
...Stage, with its own pleasantly romantic, stage-struck air, helps to explain why show business, in good times or bad, retains its .own peculiar brand of glamor...