Word: deal
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week it developed that a good deal depended on whose morality was involved. Republican Wolverton began expounding his ethical ideas to Witness Paul Porter, chairman of the FCC during the Roosevelt and Truman Administrations, now counsel for a losing applicant for Miami's Channel 10. That was what canny Lawyer Porter had been waiting for. Smiling owlishly, he reached into a briefcase, produced a letter from a Congressman to the FCC requesting special action on a constituent's application for TV Channel 17 in Camden, N.J. Date of letter: March 30, 1953. Sender of letter: Representative Wolverton...
...PIPELINE DEAL is ready for signing by U.S. allies in Middle East. Agreement has been drafted to lay $500 million 1,100-mile line from Iran's Qum field (TIME, May 6) to Turkey's Mediterranean port of Iskenderun, and the two nations have offer of financial help from U.S. investors headed by Wall Street's Allen & Co. Prospect is that Iraq will hook into line via short feeder pipe, thus bypassing Syria...
...Brakes. In Minnesota, eager Salesman Kenton Hicks, hearing of a deal he could close 126 miles away in Brainerd, rented a car, left Minneapolis at floorboard speed, was arrested in Robbinsdale, then St. Cloud, then Little Falls (each time for doing 100 m.p.h.), did not get to Brainerd...
Even as Venezuela makes the tricky passage from dictatorship to democracy, pressure mounts in the U.S. Congress for a measure that would deal Venezuela a hard economic blow. U.S. crude-oil import restrictions, now on a voluntary basis that has already pinched Venezuela painfully, may be tightened and made mandatory. Unless all Venezuela understands the facts of the dropping oil market, restrictions may seem like U.S. disapproval of Venezuela's democratic trend...
...except through intermediaries. In December Dody was cut down from five to three performances a week. Her shrewd manager renegotiated her five-year NBC contract, guaranteeing her $26,000 for the next 26 weeks, whether she appears with Paar or not, and freeing her for other work. In the deal the Jack Paar Show gladly arranged to drop her as a "regular" last week...