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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Poring over performance charts some 60 hours a week, Campbell assigns the weights for 40-odd stake races, and about 80 overnight handicaps-in addition to writing the condition books (i.e., the daily racing programs)-for the four New York tracks. On the basic principle that three pounds of weight equals one length in a mile race (with due allowance for individual horses' ability to carry weight) his figures aim to produce dead heats or at least photo-finishes in every handicap race...
...polls, which cover some 70-odd freshmen and selected upper class courses, will determine the comments appearing in the forthcoming guide...
This did not constitute American exploitation, as the Reds bellow. For at the same time, Coca-Cola's 270-odd foreign bottlers and 3,000-odd foreign retail dealers grossed roughly $150 million. Not out of idealism, but out of good American common sense, Coca-Cola is in the business of creating business wherever it goes...
Rhythm of the Relay. The realistic approach is often a sound-man's nightmare. Up to five men are needed to handle the 300-odd sound effects on each show. Webb's trickiest piece of realism came when the script called for a long-distance phone call from Los Angeles to Fountain Green, Utah. "We actually placed the call and recorded it. We got all the line clicks of the trunk lines, the rhythm of the operators as they moved the call from one relay point to another. You can't fake stuff like the authentic...
...complication; most of the Scanlon plants are small--averaging perhaps 500 workers. (Seanlon, however, has installed the plan in a Canadian steel plant of 5,000, and is at the moment experimenting in a subsidiary plant of a large corporation). But in spite of the limitations, the 40-odd companies in which the plan has been introduced represent a very wide variety of enterprises...