Word: pickings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Caught with their rate cards down, network pitchmen faced the official opening of the new TV season with time on their hands. At week's end NBC was still trying to find sponsors for 4¼ unsold nighttime hours; CBS needed someone to pick up the tab for &; ABC was stuck with 4¾. Competition is so keen that both CBS and NBC are willing to peddle one-shot time spots...
...learned to use his strength until the end of the 1954 season, his first full year in the majors, when he put aside his 35-oz. bat for one weighing 31 oz. Banks found that he could watch the pitch's path until the last split second, then pick it off with a quick bat stroke...
...week that it was ready for a new try at the auto market with a new car, new financing and new blood. As expected, the new blood was supplied by Abraham M. Sonnabend, an expert at blending tax-loss carry-overs with profits (TIME, Aug. 18), who will now pick up moneymaking acquisitions to balance S.-P.'s $135 million tax carryover. The refinancing comes from 23 banks and insurance companies, which take over S.-P.'s $54.7 million debt in return for $16.5 million in 15-year-notes, and 165,000 shares of convertible preferred stock...
...acoustic method, suited for any kind of blast except for those set off underground or in outer space. With sensitive microbarometers and hydrophones, observation posts could pick up the low-frequency sound waves that fan out for thousands of miles after every nuclear explosion. Unfortunately, the sound waves are subject to distortion by such natural upheavals as volcanic eruptions, meteorites, landslides and even thunder. ¶ Collection of Radioactive debris that can travel up to 1,200 miles a day at a height of 40,000 ft. Touchy about having air patrols over their territory, the Russian scientists at first balked...
Kramer's recipe is to pick up a story shell of mollusk-like simplicity and crack it open almost raw to lay bare the flesh beneath. In Champion (1949), his hero was a heel who could hit, and would hit anybody to get to the top; in High Noon (1952), a lawman alone against four avenging gunslingers. The Defiant Ones, in terms of its plot, is equally spare: two men escape from a Southern chain gang and are hunted down by a sheriff and his posse. But from a stark, grimly witty script by Movie Newcomers Nathan E. Douglas...