Word: coding
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...much for Manhattan's building-code administrators, who haggled with Wright for years over the details (e.g., Wright's original all-glass dome had to be considerably reduced in diameter, redesigned to include concrete ribs...
...attempt to seek responsive support from as many quarters as possible, the CCA prepares at election time a very detailed statement of its platform--probably a more detailed statement than any candidate, CCA or "Independent," ever would find necessary. A revised zoning code would hardly arouse much enthusiasm for a candidate, simply because the issue is so complex and seemingly removed from the everyday life of most voters. But those who, by training, inclination or business, might be involved or interested in that issue would find a clear statement of the position adopted by CCA candidates...
Profit on Property. Chances are only fifty-fifty, Stevens admits, that Property will get the code's approval. It is the story of two switchblade hoodlums and their step-by-step seduction of a sex-starved housewife. Murder (at the bottom of the Stevens swimming pool), sadism, and an uncommonly forgiving husband are all crammed into the script...
When the National Association of Broadcasters wrote its Television Code in 1952, the association decided that certain products should not rate air time at all, e.g., hemorrhoid remedies. This spring, when the Westinghouse Broadcasting Company's President Donald McGannon took charge of the N.A.B. code review board, offenders were told to stop talking about hemorrhoids and other such "intimately personal" problems or forfeit the code seal of approval, but 20 stations decided that they could get along without it. Further, McGannon's review board went on to criticize commercials for toilet paper, deodorants, laxatives, etc. In a confidential...
...Purpose Telephone. A telephone-answering gadget that answers calls, records and transmits the messages over the phone when called by the owner, will be put on sale in the U.S. by Code-a-Phone Electronics Inc. Operating on transistors, the device records any number of messages up to an hour in length each, also enables the owner to listen in on calls without the caller's knowledge, thus decide whether to talk or let the recorder take a message. Rent: $28 a month...