Word: launchful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Television air waves were "empty and hungry" when Chicago Lawyer Milton Gordon set out to appease the hunger in 1953. As a vice president of Walter E. Heller & Co., Gordon worked on movie financing, helped launch United Artists (TIME, April 28), saw the need of small stations for television films. Teaming up with Hollywood Producer Edward Small, Gordon formed Television Programs of America, Inc. as a production and distribution company. Into T.P.A. Gordon and Small put $125,000 apiece, bought their first series. Ramar of the Jungle, for $100,000. In the era before Hollywood features became standard late-show...
Estimates of NATO strength remained secret for security reasons, although the Admiral admitted that the allied forces were considerably smaller than the Soviet armies. Despite their military strength, however, the Russians have "the patience and the realism" not to launch an attack while they are convinced of swift and united retaliation, Admiral Wright declared. "Our ability to convince them of this is the primary deterrent to aggression," he emphasized...
...crowded hour with popular classes. The two hundred and twenty-five elect who made it into Comp Lit 166 will file into Longfellow Alumnae with a sizeable vanguard of embittered auditors to hear Professor Guerard launch his whirlwind tour of modern novels from Bovary to Absolom. Fieser, Krall, et al, will start their annual purge of Harvard's pre-med ranks in Mallinc-krodt MB9. Expressly designed to separate the men from the boys, Chem 20 will again swell the number of English concentrators...
...trawlers that had dropped their nets within seven miles of Iceland's coast. The Icelanders had succeeded in getting nine men aboard the trawler Northern Foam when the British frigate Eastbourne charged at flank speed onto the scene. The nine boarders were quickly subdued, bundled into a motor launch and ferried back to Thor. But Thor's skipper refused to accept them, on grounds that the British had used coercion in removing them from the trawler. Reluctantly, the skipper of the Eastbourne took the Icelanders aboard his own ship-not as prisoners, but as "guests" of the British...
...around export regulations by labeling their third-rate products "toys." Once Japanese businessmen winked at the practice. Today, it aggravates them so that Matsushita Electric Industries Co., Japan's biggest electrical-communications maker, withdrew from the U.S. transistor market "rather than lose face." Matsushita intends to launch a sales campaign, win U.S. consumer confidence by providing service for its radios...