Word: overhauled
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...networks and more viewers than all six competing stations combined. Currently, Los Angeles alone is putting some 17 hours of movies on TV every day. When other independent stations begin to bilk the major webs of their regular audience, the whole of TV will be due for a serious overhaul...
...privately that no Italian could make American coffee, and installed her own coffeemaker. Another point: she always felt worse in the mornings; the symptoms were most acute after she had been abed. One of the clinchers: a record player in her bedroom, frequently faltering, had been sent out for overhaul, and the repairman had reported that its mechanism was clogged with whitish dust and particles of paint...
...company will hang on to American's name "for future use." As part of his drastic, long-range overhaul, President Smith, 47, a onetime journalistic wunderkind on the San Francisco Chronicle, wants to start a newsmagazine. Smith already has added a phonograph-record division to Crowell-Collier, is shopping for a daily newspaper and in the last two months has bought six radio and four TV stations across the U.S., including a pair in Honolulu. Under his three-year regime, the company's profitable book division ( Collier's Encyclopedia, the Harvard Classics) is expected to double...
...Call a convention to overhaul the state's cumbersome constitution, a move that Long's critics (while admitting the need for constitutional revision) see as Earl's gambit to change the constitution so that he can succeed himself...
...France during World War I. He went to Washington as Assistant Secretary of Commerce in 1935, later earned a reputation as one of the slow-moving ICC's most effective members. His resignation, long sought by the Administration, will pave the way for a younger chairman and thorough overhaul of ICC's creaking machinery...