Word: complaint
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...nonetheless enthusiastic crowds. But since the Red Chinese forays across Burma's border last summer and their expenditure of large sums in the last Burmese elections, the atmosphere has changed. Many knowing Burmese were forced to hide a snicker when they heard that Chou had filed an official complaint about discourtesies appearing in the Burmese press. Burmese Premier U Ba Swe, it was said, had himself suggested that a little pointed discourtesy might not be out of order. Even state dinners broke up early...
Lana at Peak Hours. Viewers had little cause for complaint, except where too many commercials studded the movies to pay off their huge costs. Some network executives professed to be unworried; they said that affiliates are showing the big movies on their own time, not during the choice hours pledged to networks. But NBC, staunch champion of "live" television (in part because of its deep involvement in color TV) is frankly fretting...
Good Deal. Silberstein and friends, said the protesting stockholders in the court complaint, bought 100,000 shares of Fairbanks, Morse for $33 apiece, then sold them to Penn-Texas at $43 for a personal profit of $1,000,000. They further charged that Penn-Texas this year bought 200,000 shares of Fairbanks, Morse at an excessive price ($45), raised the money by borrowing and by selling and leasing back Penn-Texas properties. As a result, they said, banks were threatening to call Penn-Texas loans...
...threatened last year to withhold its network affiliations, (and guaranteed programming) from Westinghouse Broadcasting Co. stations unless Westinghouse swapped its radio and TV outlets in Philadelphia, the fourth-largest TV market in population and retail sales, for NBC's radio and TV stations in Cleveland (which, said the complaint, was the tenth market), plus...
...letter was given to Arthur D. Trottenberg, manager of operating services, who directed two engineers to investigate the freshman complaint. After installing the thermograph, they checked the instrument daily and found that the temperature in the room went down as low as 59 degrees...