Word: payoffs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...with Two Hats. As Polaroid's president, Land is able to push promising research projects even when the payoff seems far off, e.g., color film for the 60-second camera, which is "coming along nicely" after years in the laboratory. He has a formal, functional president's office in Polaroid's Cambridge headquarters. But he spends most of his time in a dingy laboratory office cluttered with cameras, chemicals and corncob pipes...
...after such a poor start. Even when they erased the deficit by winning the next three games, the Dodgers' hopes were still dim. Those three victories came in their own cozy Ebbets Field, where the fences are in easy range for hitters. But the seventh series game, the payoff, was to be played in spacious Yankee Stadium, the vast Bronx lot out of which no hitter, not even Babe Ruth, ever drove a baseball...
...American people by a high protective tariff unless some other segment pays for it. You can restrict the flow of Venezuelan oil to the United States. When you do that, you make all of New England take a higher power cost because its fuel will cost more. The ultimate payoff is with the consumer...
...payroll of CBS as one of the network's resident geniuses (TIME, Aug. 22). Surprise has been largely handled by the Cowan executive vice president, Steve Carlin, who claims he can discover a further difference between the two programs. Says Carlin, with deadpan seriousness: "Despite the $100,000 payoff, The Big Surprise will not be, strictly speaking, a quiz show; rather, it is a novelty show, based in the main on human interest...
...nightclub and variety circuit, Frank has a rating that stands second to none in pull or payoff (he can make up to $50,000 a week at Las Vegas...