Word: box
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Braun and his men, lonely and discouraged, were set down at Fort Bliss, Texas, left to tinker around, pretty much by themselves, with old V-25, moved no closer to space. The Korean war changed that: in 1950 the German scientists were rushed bag and baggage to Huntsville (see box) with orders to build the Army a long-range missile with nuclear-payload capability. Result: the Redstone missile, successfully launched at Cape Canaveral...
...York newspaper critics praised the play, and long lines of hopeful ticket buyers formed at the box office. But within the Roosevelt family, Schary's play drew mixed notices. Eleanor Roosevelt called it "an excellent play," but added: "I have no feeling of reality about it. It had no more to do with me than the man in the moon." Said Franklin Jr.: "It is a very accurate and true play...
AIRLINE TRAFFIC flew out ahead of both railroads and bus lines in 1957 for first time in history, reports CAB. Box score: 25.8 billion passenger-miles for U.S. airlines v. 25.2 billion for intercity buses, 21.6 billion for railroads...
...news, contained in a report on movie-going by Business Analysts Sindlinger & Co.: since the TV screens last fall started to flicker for fair with movies, average weekly theater attendance has dropped 7,000,000 from 1956 figures, and theater owners have taken a $50 million loss at the box office...
...high as 6.2% in the first six months, compared to the previous year. Then a summer decline set in that was drastically accelerated by the fall deluge of television movies. In the last six months of 1957, attendance fell as much as 17.5% below 1956 figures. Box-office business will probably get worse if post-1948 films are peddled to television in the same volume as their predecessors. Some 300 post-1948 movies have already been sold down the channel, including such quality films as High Noon. This trend, warned the report, could be "a death blow to theaters...