Word: cheapness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Botched It Up." The fixed contestants solemnly played along with the cheap little travesty. Labor Organizer Richard Jackman, built up on Twenty One as a workingman's Jimmy Stewart, won $24,500 and pangs of conscience, settled for $15,000 when told by Enright that more "would throw the budget out of whack"; then he had third thoughts, started to sue Enright for the other $9,500, got it. Apple-cheeked Kirsten Falke, then only 16, was picked up for Twenty One's penny-ante sister show, Tic Tac Dough, when she answered a call to audition...
Returning to Oregon, Beatie married hastily, was quickly divorced, then drifted to San Francisco and to the bottom of the ladder. He walked slowly, with a cane, and he found relief in cheap wine and whisky. He managed to eke out a living with occasional odd jobs and his $19-a-month Army pension. He kept to himself, lived and drank in a shack behind a waterfront store, did not fraternize with the run of Skid Row bums. Yet for some reason they liked him, and there was something in him that even they could admire...
...road, that is what happened with Once in a Lifetime, and then the beggar-playwright, rattling his cup for a kind word, was transformed into a maharajah. The day after Once in a Lifetime opened, Moss Hart staged a melodramatic epilogue: he rushed his family out of their cheap apartment, forcing them to leave the very plates on the table and the toothbrushes in their racks, and moved them to a posh Manhattan hotel; along the way, in a driving rain, he stopped at the Music Box theater, where people were lining up at the box office, and drew...
...fissioning U-233 produces more than enough neutrons to maintain the original chain reaction. If these extra neutrons are captured by thorium, the reactor will produce more U-233 fuel than it can use. The AEC thinks this breeding factor is the key to cheap nuclear power. If a breeding reactor such as the one being planned for Oak Ridge were to start operation in 1959, it could be expected to produce enough material to fuel a duplicate of itself...
...what really made exotic fuel a marginal program was the rapid developments in aviation and rocketry since the program began, plus some hard-to-lick bugs in using the fuel. Jet engines have improved so rapidly, even using cheap kerosene as fuel, that they are rapidly, approaching the efficiency expected with exotic fuels. Furthermore, U.S. missiles that can be fired at a distant target from speeding planes have been developed so fast that an increase in the range of the B70 is not as important as it once...