Word: comparisons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Burma's gentle, shrewd Premier U Nu, who has been touring the world's capitals from Peking to Washington like a kind of international comparison shopper, faced newsmen on his own home ground last week and reported a neutralist's findings...
...comparison, the U.S.'s biggest uranium mine, Anaconda's Jackpile Mine in New Mexico, has ore reserves of only 5,000,000 tons...
...dazzling demonstration of what the name Disney can do. In the guise of entertainment, the show consisted of a 90-minute commercial for Disney's newest commercial enterprise. By comparison, CBS's Frankie Laine Time (Wed. 8 p.m., E.D.T.) was merely a minor, 60-minute disappointment. The summer replacement for Godfrey is a variety show, with Frankie singing and acting as host. But the acts were uniformly mediocre, and Frankie, whose singing is stylized, lacked style...
...Thurber's rowdy recollections of the game in Columbus, Ohio. But his saga of Hop Bitters ("The Invalid's Friend& Hope"-alcoholic content: 40%), which Patent Medicine Man Asa T. Soule of Rochester put over by promoting a baseball team and a hilariously crooked sculling championship, invites comparison with Thurber's immortal tribute to the life-preserving elixirs concocted by Aunt Margery Albright. This book is good fun for summer readers, especially for those who remember...
...industry city, Hollywood is now home territory to about 250 companies which are in the $100-million-a-year business of producing TV films. In 1956, Hollywood will produce more than 3,000 hours of TV entertainment, both live and on film. What this means is clear from a comparison with the motion picture companies' expected production for the nation's movie screens: at most 300 hours of entertainment...