Word: buying
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...outflow of dollars from the U.S. would exceed the inflow by some $4 billion this year; the end of the Marshall Plan period of unrestricted overseas spending had come. No, the U.S. did not intend to cut out foreign aid where it was needed, nor to retreat into "Buy American" protectionism, nor to cut dangerously its overseas military forces. But it might have to do all these things if such industrially strong nations as West Germany, Britain and Japan did not take over part of the aid to underdeveloped nations, drop trade barriers and get on with the business...
...wishbone. Experimenting with "aminotriazole," a weed-killing chemical that some Pacific Northwest growers use in their bogs, government chemists had produced cancer in the thyroid gland of a mouse. "Just to be on the safe side," Flemming, Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare, advised America's housewives not to buy any cranberries until extensive testing had been completed...
...haunted Hollywood talents savor the capital-gains advantages of independent production. Adds NBC's Kintner: "We simply haven't enough creative brains and personnel to supply all the programs." Undoubtedly, there should be far more network-produced shows, but the real trouble is not that the networks buy from packagers, but that they do not exercise enough care in what they buy. Example: ABC bought the disastrous Adventures in Paradise from 20th Century-Fox, Alaskans, Bourbon Street Beat and Hawaiian Eye from Warner's-all without even seeing a pilot film. Says Adman Clyne: "Last spring...
...away from BBC. To meet the competition, BBC itself has lately turned to less cerebral programing, including plenty of U.S. westerns. The fact remains that ITV furnishes a striking example that a TV network can be run for profit without giving the advertiser control of the programs. British sponsors buy time on ITV as advertisers buy space in newspapers, can choose their time of day but have no say about the program that backs up their commercials. Hence, unlike Madison Avenue ad agencies, they cannot dictate the kind of "programing concepts" that, originality-wise, may be nowhere, but that, rating...
Newsstands all over Boston were mobbed yesterday by people trying to buy out-of-town newspapers as the local branch of the International Typographical Union continued its strike...