Word: half
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...studio full of dancing teenagers, and Dick Clark, a suave young (28) disk jockey full of money. For his go-minute American Bandstand, which is carried by 90 ABC stations each weekday (3 p.m., E.S.T.), Clark draws one of the biggest audiences in daytime TV, some 8,000,000 (half of them adults), 20,000 to 45,000 fan letters a week, and an income approaching $500,000 a year. Admits Clark: "It's all a little frightening...
...giveaway program on rival NBC (The Price Is Right), Arthur Godfrey was fighting back with a giveaway of his own-in which winners would get anything "reasonable" they asked for-plus a new format that scraps his old 60-minute simulcast for an hour of radio followed by a half-hour of straight TV. After a decade, it was his first concession that TV is a visual medium...
...problem is food. Platypuses eat half their weight daily, and they demand live food. So every day Fleay dispenses 2,000 earthworms. 200 meal grubs, 30 crayfish, chafer grubs and crickets. Favorite item with the growing platypuses: small, wriggling grubs that Fleay raises under his house in bran and meal moistened with beer...
...slack freight traffic in petroleum products and durable goods. But Union Pacific's January-February railroad net slipped only 1%. Also in good shape was Southern Pacific. With rising income from pipelines and trucking affiliates, S.P. expects roughly the same earnings of $27.2 million in the first half of 1958 as in the same period last year...
...save Maserati without wrecking their remaining businesses, which are independently solvent (annual sales: $2,000,000), the Orsis offered Driver Fangio a 50% share in Maserati for $625,000. Fangio, who has a thriving G.M. distributorship in Buenos Aires, could raise only half the necessary funds. That left Maserati at the mercy of the state-owned Credito Italiano, which had the right to turn the firm over to the government. Last week the plant was still running-but for the government and without the Orsis...