Word: manuals
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...single-station deals. ABC, rumored willing to accept even a network liquor show, announced cautiously that it had "reached no decision." NBC unblushingly offered the facilities of its' network-owned Station KNBC in San Francisco for a test run. Perhaps in deference to NBC's own policy manual (under the heading: "Business Classifications Unacceptable on NBC" it lists wines and liquor), NBC stipulated that Schenley commercials could be broadcast only after midnight on a disc-jockey show...
Like bartenders and bus drivers, movie theater ushers occasionally have their troubles with the bothersome fringe of humanity. But they do not lack for sound advice. The cinema trade organ Boxoffice has culled a few helpful hints for ushers from a manual prepared in Ohio by Warner Bros, for its theaters. Examples...
...were devoted to him. He swam in Lake Washington, tinkered with a $10 motorcycle which he could never make run, worked at a few after-school jobs. The most disagreeable of these was cleaning out a horse stall under a store on Rainier Street; Frankie was never much at manual work. His ambition, as he was achieving social success at Franklin High, was to go to college. Then father went stony broke...
...Dukes' basement club; the bits & pieces of broken-down humanity that cluster like flies around Selma's sidewalk soda stand. Especially good are the close-up studies of gratuitous violence: in the poolroom the Dukes brutally beat up a couple of outsiders; in the school manual training class the kids (armed with the crude guns they have been secretly making at their work benches) defy, bully and finally terrorize their teacher...
Italy has kept the national health insurance introduced by Mussolini in the '20s. Almost 15 million of a working population of 25 million participate. Premiums, contributed equally by employers and employees, amount to 3% of white collar, and 5% of manual worker salaries. The insurance organization has a salaried staff of 600 doctors who serve members, but the main medical burden is borne by 15,000 of the country's independent practitioners. Their bills are paid half by the insurance, half by the insured...