Word: chasing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...never do action for action's sake," says Gunsmoke Producer Norman Macdonnell. "For instance, we've never had a chase on Gunsmoke. We made a list of things that annoyed us in the regular Westerns. For instance, the devotion of the cowboy to his horse. That's a lot of nonsense. The two things a cowboy loves best are his saddle and his hat. And cowboy speech isn't full of things like 'shucks' and 'side-winding varmint.' What's more, the frontier marshals made mistakes sometimes, and they weren...
Then why did oilmen wait for the Suez crisis to boost prices? Maine's Senator Margaret Chase Smith guessed it was for the same reason that Texas held down allowables. Appearing in behalf of her consumer constituents before the Senate's O'Mahoney subcommittee, she testified: "It is entirely possible that prices were not raised by domestic producers prior to the Suez crisis for the very obvious factor of competition from foreign imports. Perhaps domestic producers didn't dare increase prices for fear they would lose such markets as New England. Obviously these attempts...
...involved in writing for newspapers, magazines, radio and television, or in general writing. They include such names as Cleveland Amory '39, Brooks Atkinson '17, Nathaniel Benchley '38, Stuart Chase '10, John Dos Passos '16 and Walter D. Edmonds...
...rich man's institution, today has 21 branches, 150,000 accounts, and its assets have grown by more than $900 million. Bankers are also learning the values of advertising to get their message across, spent $82 million last year v. $22 million in 1946. New York's Chase Manhattan Bank alone spent $2,000,000 on advertising in 1956, and as a result boosted savings a great deal...
...auditory and visual hallucinations, uttered incoherent words, and had recurrent spells of sudden coma. He was frequently found running wildly through the countryside eating the bark of trees, and was known to throw himself into fire and water. K. believed he could 'talk to spirits' and 'chase ghosts...