Word: ooo
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week, 40 years after his first swing on a back-lot liana, Tarzan of the Apes ooo-eee-ooed the famed yodel, dropped from the treetops into his 32nd movie. Since the other 31 were all financial successes-a combined total gross of more than $500 million and a total audience of 2 billion people-the new Tarzan's Fight for Life showed the sort of promise most appreciated by Cinemogul Sy Weintraub, new head of Sol Lesser Productions, owner...
Last year NTA bought its first station, Minneapolis' KMGM-TV (now KMSP-TV), last week bought Newark's faltering WATV and its radio affiliates for $4,500,-ooo and renamed it WNTA. Now NTA is angling for a full FCC-allowed quota of five TV stations. On the stock market last week, NTA shares sold at close to $10-three times their price two years ago. Its assets have passed the $40 million mark...
...Anomaly in the Law." The case considered by the Supreme Court last week was that of top U.S. Communists Gilbert Green and Henry Winston, convicted under the Smith Act in 1949, each fined $10,-ooo and sentenced to five years in prison. After sentencing, both jumped bail and hid out for nearly five years. When they gave themselves up in 1956, they were sentenced to three more years apiece for their contempt of court in jumping bond. The criminal-contempt convictions were upheld last week by the Supreme Court-but only by a 5-to-4 vote...
Conservationist's Nightmare. The unexpected decision shocked the combine, which had spent $2,500,000 planning its smaller dams. And it enraged some 200,-ooo politically potent sports fishermen throughout the Northwest. The dams that industrialized the Northwest have blocked great runs of Chinook salmon and steelhead trout as they swarm in from the sea to spawn far upstream. Since pre-dam 1928, the commercial salmon catch on the Columbia River alone has decreased more than 50%. Millions have been spent on devices to help mature fish climb dams, get tiny fingerlings back safely through turbine blades...
...Steel President Hood, blaming the boost on rising labor costs, said that this week's wage increase will amount to 21? an hour, boost the corporation's annual labor costs by $87 million to $1,543,000,-ooo, which is a record high. But labor refused to have the price hike laid at its door. Said United Steelworkers' President David J. McDonald: "Even without raising prices and without obtaining greatest output per man-hour, the corporation is in a position to increase its net profit from $348.1 million in 1956 to $437 million in 1957." The steel...