Word: g
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...hundredth the density of sea-level air. A radio signal from the ground will set an igniting system in motion. The four Stage One Recruits will roar into life, concentrating their 160,000 lbs. of thrust on the small rocket and snapping it upward with 70 g. of acceleration. It will shoot through the filmy balloon as if it were not there. The first stage fuel will be burned in 1.5 sec., giving Far Side a speed of 3,500 m.p.h. Stage Two, igniting a few seconds after the separation of Stage One, will double the speed. Stage Three will...
...bunch of little Davy Crocketts and little Daughters of the Republic." "It appears to me," said former President W. W. Kemmerer of the University of Houston later, "that the board is encircling the state with a cotton curtain to prevent the children from peeping out." Nonsense, retorted Acting Superintendent G. C. Scarborough, a member of the local White Citizens' Council: "We're just drifting back to the fundamentals...
Split Board. Vogel's avowed enemies are onetime TV Producer (Dragnet) Stanley Meyer and Joseph Tomlinson, a millionaire Canadian contractor and biggest (5%) individual Loew stockholder; both have long been dissatisfied with the operation of the company. Last year, with M-G-M showing a $3,000,000 loss on movie production, the threat of a proxy war was stemmed only by a deal that split Loew's board. At the February meeting Vogel was allowed to choose six directors, the Tomlinson-Meyer group another six, with a neutral member in New York Herald Tribune President and Editor...
Since then President Vogel has done his best to get Loew's back on the track. He planned to release 36 "worthy" pictures in 1957-58 v. only 18 in 1956, and made a succession of deals with Hollywood's independent producers to put M-G-M on a competitive par with its more alert rivals. But for Tomlinson and Meyer it was evidently a case of too little too late; Loew's estimates that its profits for the third quarter of fiscal 1957 will total exactly 1?. At a board meeting a fortnight ago, charged Vogel...
...Appealing to his stockholders for help, embattled President Vogel warned that the dissidents planned to put Contractor Tomlinson in as Loew's chairman, with TV Man Meyer as president. He also charged, as a final shot, that the man behind it all was none other than longtime M-G-M Mogul Louis B. Mayer, the aging (72) lion trainer who retired six years ago, but whose cream-colored, leather-paneled office is still kept vacant. Along with his two allies, said President Vogel, Old L.B. is "actively attempting to seize control...