Word: airing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Wyoming. By midafternoon the fire fighters numbered at least 1,000-state and federal Forest Service men, Air Force personnel from" nearby bases, Deadwood's own saloonkeepers and miners from the nearby Homestake gold mine...
Military tentacles spread wide. The army owns the country's largest industrial empire, comprising 18 plants and 17,000 civilian workers, turning out everything from plows to TV sets. The air force produces cars, tractors; the navy operates commercial freighter and passenger lines. Though it has not fought a foreign enemy since beating tiny Paraguay in 1870, the military commands 17.5% of the budget...
...save a game. Despite its long medical history, Jones's arm is plenty strong enough to stand the strain. It always was; his problem was control. Although he had not played much baseball growing up in Monongah, W. Va. (pop. 1,622), Jones developed such speed that Army Air Corps coaches turned him into a scatter-armed fireballer during World War II. After the war, Wild Man Jones wandered with indifferent success through the Indians' system until 1955, when he was sold to the Chicago Cubs...
...woman justified in killing to protect her chastity? Last week Rome heard a Jesuit priest take the air to answer the question with a resounding...
Ready for presidential signature this week: a bill designed to put an end to what the U.S. broadcasting industry considers a ridiculous abuse of the so-called "equal-time" rule, by which any station that puts a political candidate on the air must give equal time to every other qualified candidate who demands it. The bill amends the Communications Act to exempt bona fide newscasts and news programs from the provision. The need for an amendment arose last spring, when the FCC issued an interpretation holding that equal time applied not only to campaign speeches but also to news programs...