Word: montes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...jack except that monkeys and rodents as well as mosquitoes carry it) move toward Panama from the Brazilian Amazon. He knew that it had been spotted in the jungles east of the Canal. Now he ordered 75,000 doses of yellow-fever vaccine by B-29 from a Hamilton, Mont, laboratory. Spraying and draining and elimination of Aëdes breeding grounds were stepped up to the old Gorgas pace...
Skiing was labeled "fair" to "good" and "excellent" all the way north from Amesbury (skiing "excellent") to Mont Tremblant in Canada (35 inch base, nine inches powder...
...audiences meant that TV networks might this year cut their skyrocketing losses. Yet none of the networks was entirely happy. Because there are only two coaxial cables, their use must be divided among NBC (which has more sponsored TV shows than any of the others), CBS, ABC and Du Mont...
...leaders are Pixie Playtime, on Manhattan's WPIX, featuring Peter W. Pixie, assisted by a Mae West-like mermaid and a witch who tortures victims by telling them old radio jokes; Little Bordy, a puppet disc jockey; the Suzari Marionettes on ABC's The Singing Lady; Du Mont's woodenheaded Oky-Doky; and Mr. Do-Good and Judy Splinters, a pair of West Coast contenders. Du Mont's popular Small Fry Club, which has previously depended on animated cartoons, movies and interminable commercials, is next week adding to its cast a puppet named Pirro...
With 64 quarter-hours each week already sponsored, Du Mont claims that its daytime TV is already in the black. NBC, CBS, and ABC have hesitated about daytime TV because they are primarily in the radio business-and radio profits foot the bill for their TV. If the surveys are right, TV cuts deeply into radio's audience, and the networks cannot yet nerve themselves to kill the goose that has been laying golden eggs for 25 years...