Word: bonanza
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Stiff federal controls on carbon monoxide and hydrocarbon emissions, scheduled to take hold on 1975 model cars, have been a migraine for the automakers. But for Milton Rosenthal, a lawyer who is chief executive of Engelhard Minerals & Chemicals Corp., Washington's demand for cleaner air could produce a bonanza. Engelhard makes a catalytic converter-a steel cylinder containing a platinum-treated honeycomb structure-that changes some toxic gases into harmless substances. The converter, which costs less than $50, shows strong evidence of enabling the automakers to meet the Environmental Protection Agency standards...
Television's expansion of profit and audience transformed the life of the professional athlete. It forced him to become a businessman in order to share in TV's financial bonanza: "Two things accompanied the money athletes on their road to the banks of America, in addition to the hoopla and cash: agents and confrontations with the sports establishments." The book explores the new sophistication of the athlete, who brought his lawyer-agent to the contract bargaining table, and sat around checking his investment portfolios instead of playing poker as he did in an earlier era. Durso discusses the Curt Flood...
...Columnist Jack Anderson's charge that the Administration last summer settled antitrust suits against ITT in exchange for a $400,000 pledge by an ITT subsidiary to help underwrite the Republican National Convention in San Diego. The settlement was relatively favorable to ITT, though by no means a bonanza, and no specific quid pro quo arrangement has been proved. Indeed, it seemed naive to suggest that a superconglomerate with assets of $6.7 billion would try to buy the favor of the Department of Justice for such a comparatively trifling sum-or that it could be successful...
During the 1961-'62 school year, Irving taught creative writing at the U.C.L.A. Extension school, a job he obtained on the recommendation of Robert Kirsch. Later he picked up expense money by selling a script to TV's Bonanza and doing other television work. By the spring of 1962, he had abandoned the down-and-out lifestyle...
Hydrant Stops. Pope admits to affection for the "oldfashioned stunts of the Hearst-Pulitzer days." He is now dreaming of a transcontinental train race between Rail Buffs Jackie Gleason and Dan Blocker of Bonanza fame. The Enquirer has offered $50,000 rewards for the first hard evidence of the existence of UFOs and the first contact to be made by a scientist with another civilization in the universe...