Word: parente
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Hasty Pudding Institute has barred participation in its Theatricals to non-members of the Club, by decision of the executive board of the parent organization...
...opinion held that Senator Joseph R. McCarthy's Investigating Subcommittee had exceeded the powers Congress had granted its parent committee, the Government Operations Committee. The Committee, he said, had no authority to investigate subversion in privately operated defense plants...
...bought oil concessions under Lake Maracaibo to add to its Venezuelan affiliates. Now the Creole Petroleum Corp. (formed from those affiliates) is the biggest overseas investment in any single country by any U.S. company. It is also Jersey's best money earner, accounting for 48% of the parent company's dividend income in 1954. All by itself, Creole provides Venezuela with about 30% of government revenue. This week, in its fourth study entitled U.S. Business Performance Abroad, the National Planning Association took a searching look at Creole...
...selling TV ad time to several sponsors per show, popularized the hour-and-a-half "spectacular" program, thought up NBC's Wide, Wide World and long-winded Monitor. But all this was not entirely to the liking of David Sarnoff, 64, board chairman of NBC's parent company, Radio Corp. of America. Madison Avenue gossiped that Pat Weaver was getting too much personal publicity-and at a bad time: NBC's share of the TV business and ratings were dropping. In November, for the first time in TV history, NBC failed to place a single TV show...
Your article should be required reading for every parent. As a graduate student, after completing a large part of the requirements for secondary-teaching credentials, I gave up in disgust at the conformity required...