Word: aire
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...stations, FCC sent a demand for complete "verified statements" reporting payola, schlockmeistering. bribes, undercover plugs and similar activities that have gone on during the past 13 months. The commission had found its authority in a section of the Communications Act of 1934, which requires that stations name on the air all people who in any manner pay to have material broadcast. The FCC poll will probably not reflect anything like the amount of bread that has actually changed hands, since many breadwinners can be expected to deny that they have ever been on the take...
...have responsibility for what is on the air," said CBS's Dr. Stanton. "May I interrupt here, Frank?" said Bob Kintner. "At NBC we accept responsibility for what is on the air, too." Not to be outdone, FTC Chairman Earl Kintner (no kin to NBC's Bob) announced: "This commission is determined to take the responsibility to keep the spigots open. We hope there's a trickle down to the stations that make up the industry." As for Mutual, it had already eliminated one offensive word from all ad copy broadcasts on the network. The word: diarrhea...
Slicing the Tree. The pathologists removed the whole breathing apparatus ("tracheobronchial tree") from the bodies of 402 men who died in Veterans Administration Hospital in East Orange and in eleven New York hospitals (mainly in nonindustrial towns to reduce bias that might result from air pollution). It turned out that 63 of the men had died of lung cancer and 339 from other causes, but the pathologists did not know this until after they had finished their findings. Each "tree" was cut into 208 portions and embedded in paraffin. Fifty-five of these portions, chosen for microscopic study, were then...
AIRLINE PILOTS OVER 60 will be grounded after March 15 by the FAA, which believes it hazardous to have older pilots command "the bigger and faster jets, carrying more passengers over longer routes." The Air Line Pilots Association will fight the ruling in the courts...
...BOMBER CUTBACK jolted the aircraft industry, resulted in 2,000 layoffs at North American Aviation, less drastic reductions at subcontractors Boeing, Lockheed and Chance Vought. Already stuck for $500 million in development costs, the Air Force has trimmed its $3.5 billion program for 62 combat-ready planes, has given North American the go-ahead on only two prototypes, which will be ready...