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Word: franchisee (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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Sponsor of the new Canadian pay-TV is Trans-Canada Telemeter, Ltd., a hustling subsidiary of Famous Players Canadian Corp., the country's biggest theater chain. Famous Players bought the Telemeter franchise from Paramount, decided on Etobicoke as the best test market it could find: 96% of the 40...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CANADA: Pay-&-See TV | 3/14/1960 | See Source »

The Watershed. Mboya was forcing the pace. But probably not even he expected the overwhelming success that 1960 was to bring. Six weeks ago, Mboya and the entire African elected membership sat down at London's Lancaster House for a round-table conference with British and Kenya government officials...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: KENYA: Ready or Not | 3/7/1960 | See Source »

Vote for Some. Tom Mboya was exultant: "We have exploded once and for all the myth of white supremacy." Now it was his task to sell the plan to the doubters and the angry among his own Africans. There were some of both, for Mboya and his delegation were not...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: KENYA: Ready or Not | 3/7/1960 | See Source »

Sir Roy argues for a qualified franchise not based on "the color of a person's skin," but most of the federation's 7,230,000 Africans regard his reservations as a means of keeping them from effective political power. Nevertheless, Sir Roy continues to argue, "Partnership, moving...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: FACING THE WINDS OF CHANGE | 3/7/1960 | See Source »

Africa, because the oil companies are caught between the rising tide of Arab nationalism and the intense competition from the newest fields. The development of France's Saharan oil fields (TIME, Aug. 17) will cut into the European market for Mideast oil; in addition, Russia is shipping oil not...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BUSINESS ABROAD: The Japanese Wildcat | 2/15/1960 | See Source »

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