Word: fill
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Package Business. During the early 1950s, NBC produced 90% of its own shows. But as broadcasting hours stretched out from predawn to long past midnight, the networks gradually turned to outside packagers to fill up the schedule. Partly this was due to pressure from the Justice Department, which in 1956 threatened antitrust action unless the networks gave independent producers a better share of good TV time. More significantly, in cutting back network-originated production 20% between 1956 and 1959, NBC was able to slice its "creative" payroll, slash overhead...
...strike on the U.S. economy will be felt for many weeks to come. Though there are still some 4,500,000 tons of finished steel in inventories in the U.S., much of it is in odd sizes. It will take at least four weeks before the pipelines begin to fill with new finished steel products, five to six weeks before completely balanced deliveries are resumed. The press of demand is so great that the steel companies will fill back orders as they appear on the books on a straight first-come, first-served basis. For the time being, many companies...
Erik H. Erikson, noted child psychologist, has been recommended to fill a position in the Department of Social Relations, the CRIMSON has learned. Although his appointment must still be approved by the Corporation, Erikson will presumably become a professor of Human Development...
Grumbled Mayor Franzil: "Trieste, of course, is a city close to all Italian hearts, and Roman politicians are so moved when they come here that their eyes fill with tears. Maybe that's why they can't see our problems...
...planned 646,200-unit level; in November it is planning only 290,000 units, the lowest schedule for the month since 1946. Even an early resumption of steelmaking would not help the industry in November, because of the time needed to fabricate the steel into auto parts and fill supplier pipelines. Faced with an auto shortage, buyers rushed to the showrooms. Dealers sold almost as many new cars in the first 20 days of October (338,465) as they sold in all of September, and sales for the last ten-day period were running 20% over the previous ten days...