Word: paramount
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Nevertheless, the race centers on three major companies: Manhattan's Skiatron Electronics and Television Corp., Los Angeles' International Telemeter Corp. (88% owned by Paramount Pictures), Chicago's Zenith Radio Corp.. which pioneered toll TV in 1947. All three transmit scrambled TV pictures, and the viewer decodes them by dropping coins into a box affixed to the set or by slipping a billing card into a slot...
...plant in Tennessee to observe the handling of explosives. P. & G. maintained a discipline in regard to safety rules that is still a goal with me in my present role as teacher and mother. If Mr. McElroy can apply to the Pentagon some of the principles that were of paramount importance in P. & G.'s plant, he'll come through with flying colors...
...often confused with, Malaya's newly elected paramount ruler, His Majesty Tuanku Abdul Rahman...
...Federation of Malaya is also named Abdul Rahman, and will continue in office as Prime Minister after independence. The name is a common one in Malaya, and they are not related. When both were law students in London, friends had difficulty with their honorifics-the newly elected Paramount Ruler is Tuanku (applied only to rulers and sometimes their eldest sons), while the present Chief Minister is Tengku, which means a royal prince...
...Paramount Ruler, who is 61, has given his own state of Negri Sembilan more than 24 years of enlightened and progressive rule. He has worked diligently for compulsory education, and he is such a stickler for the Queen's English that he used to return his children's letters with red-ink corrections and careful explanations of their errors. He has been married 27 years to his present third wife and has 21 grandchildren...