Word: airing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...wife eventually realizes that she loves her husband, and the empress sees that she herself cannot buy love in exchange for another's misery. Moving between the human and the spirit world, the opera blazes with magic effects: a sword swinging from nowhere, fish conjured from the air into a frying pan, a chorus of "unborn children...
When the National Association of Broadcasters wrote its Television Code in 1952, the association decided that certain products should not rate air time at all, e.g., hemorrhoid remedies. This spring, when the Westinghouse Broadcasting Company's President Donald McGannon took charge of the N.A.B. code review board, offenders were told to stop talking about hemorrhoids and other such "intimately personal" problems or forfeit the code seal of approval, but 20 stations decided that they could get along without it. Further, McGannon's review board went on to criticize commercials for toilet paper, deodorants, laxatives, etc. In a confidential...
...AIR-FARE CUTS on Pacific and round-the-world flights will be proposed by Pan Am at meeting of rate-setting International Air Transport Association. Britain's government-owned airways also favor fare cuts, and sentiment is growing to establish economy fares, now confined to North Atlantic flights, on all international runs...
United Airlines and Delta Air Lines soared into the jet age last week with the first commercial flights of the Douglas DC-8. Slightly slower than the Boeing 707 (550 m.p.h. v. 540 m.p.h.). the DC-8 boasts a few new passenger comforts, such as its unitized seat with fold-out table, reading lamp, call and air-flow buttons. With the jet, Delta, which put it in service from New York to Atlanta, got the jump on its chief competitor; Eastern Air Lines will not start jet service until January. For United, the coast-to-coast nonstop service came months...
...million loss for 1959. Traffic did drop 20% on transcontinental routes, but United has confounded its president's prediction: the line showed a $7,000,000 profit for the first half, expects to end the year well in the black. United was helped by the general upsurge in air travel and the strikes that crippled other lines. It also judiciously changed its schedules to avoid its competitors' popular jets, increased its charter service for the first eight months of 1959 to 702 flights, compared with 467 for the same period last year...