Word: collectivities
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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October 28--Lampoon parody, the Pontoon, banned as Cambridge police collect all copies from local newsstands...
Betty plays a CAT (Civilian Actress Technician), and Sergeant Dailey is a dog of a fellow who likes to collect lipstick. Between snarling and nuzzling, they help the Army put on a show in a G.I. auditorium whose elaborate stage could pass for that of Radio City Music Hall. It all falls into a tired pattern, but there are compensations: the stars' dependable footwork, a bright spoof of Air Force life, and plenty of fresh clowning by Comedian Danny Thomas...
Thorniest problem: where to find the money for radio and the increasingly heavy expenses of television? The committee thought BBC should continue, for the time being, to collect annual fees from set owners ($2.80 for radio, $5.60 for TV). Flatly rejecting advertising on the British air, the seven-man majority said: "Sponsoring . . . puts the control of broadcasting ultimately in the hands of people whose interest is not in broadcasting but in the selling of some goods or services or the propagation of particular ideas...
...Treasury and keep the cash from adding to inflation, Treasury Secretary John Snyder last week came out with a plan. Its nub: encourage people to hold on to their E bonds by continuing the interest after maturity. If they keep the bonds for ten more years, they will collect an average annual interest of 2.9%. As an alternative for those who want to collect on their bonds every year, Snyder would permit them to convert their E bonds to G bonds, which pay 1¼% interest every six months. At week's end a bill was sent to Congress...
...longest droughts in state history. Water holes and rivers had gone dry, ranges were dust, cattle herds were being shipped north or sold. The drought belt extended east to New Mexico and central Texas. In some Texas saloons, tin cups were put by the cash registers to collect funds for professional rainmakers. Oldtimers glumly compared conditions to the famous drought of 1903-04, when a man could cross the Verde River over the carcasses of dead cattle and never touch foot to the dry riverbed...