Word: gaps
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...from Radio Corp. of America. RCA had hoped that its $500 color set would bring the big breakthrough for color TV. But when black-and-white prices slid as low as $100 on some new portables, color lost out. With black-and-white prices going up, closing the price gap on color, Vice President Robert Seidel said RCA color sales this year were running two to one over 1956. Sylvania's President Don Mitchell estimated that 1957 color sales by the entire industry will run from...
Snapped Nehru: "The Congress Party is weak and getting weaker." While his sweating partymen squirmed in their chairs, Nehru lashed out at party factionalism, internal squabbles, the ever-widening gap between the party and the people. "Our strong point," said Nehru, "is the past. Unless we get out of our present rut, the Congress Party is doomed...
Though Nehru could escape his country's heat, he could not escape its mounting problems. His ambitious second five-year plan, intended to industrialize India, was running short of foreign exchange, and no nation seemed eager to put up the $1.6 billion needed to fill the gap. Internally, private capital was drying up; interest rates had risen...
...oldtime glamour. Says one veteran: "Too many men in empty grey flannel suits and expressions." Says Gossipist Jimmy Starr: "At parties the TV people are on one side of the room, and the movie people are on the other side. TV and movies haven't jumped the social gap...
Harvard temporarily closed the gap with two runs in the bottom of the third. Tom Bergantino singled to lead off. Then Navy's first baseman, Mike Willen threw John Simourian's ground ball down to second, but the ball hit Bergantino in the back and glanced off into centerfield, putting men on second and third. Bergantino scored when John Getch grounded out and Simourian came home on Smith's wild pitch...