Word: plugged
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...siege to the gleaming new hotel. The hotel surrendered eagerly, put up $25,000 of the show's $40,000 extra costs, yielded its bellhops as extras, shut off its paging system and shooed its guests away from the pool to ensure undisturbed rehearsals. "Is there any hotel plug in this script?" somebody asked at the final production conference. Cracked Allen: "Is there any script in this hotel plug...
...Gorky Park along the Moskva River in the heart of Moscow, the first U.S. trade fair ever held in Russia will open its doors this summer. The Soviet government is eager to cooperate; it has already announced the fair in newspapers and magazines, promised to plug it over radio and TV. To handle research, publicity and contracts for the fair, the first commercial office opened in the Soviet Union by any Western country has been set up by America Abroad Associates in Moscow. Yet the U.S. Government is far from happy about this adventure into areas long tightly closed...
Prestige, Not Profit. The Soviets plug Aeroflot as "the only line in the world with mass and regular exploitation of jets." To fly into the jet age ahead of the West, Aeroflot adapted Designer Andrei Tupolev's twin-jet Badger medium-range bombers to regular commercial service. The TU-104 looks like a Victorian Pullman car with ornate chandeliers, overstuffed seats, brass serving trays and old-time chain-flush toilets. But overnight it has changed Aeroflot from a lowly regarded, primarily domestic line into a major international threat. Aeroflot has about 50 TU-104s, flies them regularly to East...
...even shed a tear for the close-up lens. Viewers met Shirl's niece, who had come via "Northwest Orient Airlines, famous for imperial service," and the announcer just had time to remind the best man about the "Keepsake rings" before a bonging of bells led into a plug for Jan Murray's Treasure Hunt. After a cantor's blessing and wish for "health, happiness and togetherness," the bride and groom moved out of the canvas-and-wood chapel set, and a little cartoon man popped on-screen and chanted: "Alka-Seltzer, speedy Alka-Seltzer, bound...
...with the White House, at least until the budget for economic aid is brought up. Then Senator Knowland might make a play, for the mutual assistance doctrine is one which no amount of forcible reteration seems to be able to put across. The President certainly gave it his strongest plug to date, but without giving it continued pressure with similar determination, he could still see it go up in smoke...