Word: plugged
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Treasury Secretary Robert B. Anderson, a business-minded Texan, took the floor in Argentina's Chamber of Deputies last week with the official statement of U.S. policy at the Buenos Aires Economic Conference. The policy emerged mostly as a clearly reasoned plug for the kind of development job private capital and U.S. aid have been doing in Latin America, and a polite rejection of hopeful Latin American suggestions for more lavish U.S. handouts. But wedged in the middle was a mild shocker. "Military expenditures," warned the Secretary, "by their very nature act as a brake on rising living standards...
...onward, steadily more outrageous, shamelessly promoting forthcoming Fox movies (Peyton Place, Kiss Them for Me) and donating scads of free ad space to Trans World Airlines. This seems very obnoxious until it grows clear that Tashlin is shrewdly snickering at TV's own annoying tradition of the gratuitous plug ("Yessiree, made it to this here studio on time again today-good old Minute Minder watches...
...watch the gushing clouds of steam tinged with pink, the towers ablaze with brilliant greenish-white light, the plumes of clean-burning jet flame. And in the Starlite Motel, which rents 70 of its 87 units to missilemen from Convair, North American Aviation, Bell Telephone Laboratories, A.C. Spark Plug, the practiced observer at after-the-shoot cocktail parties can tell from the demeanor of his hosts how the shoot has gone. Smiles among the Convair group might mean a promising static-test day for the Atlas intercontinental ballistic missile, frowns among the North American missile monkeys might show...
...will soon be in use. A Celanese Corp. of America process coats cottonlike cellulose around each filament of fiber in its Arnel fabrics. Onyx Oil and Chemical Co. has developed a chemical compound called Aston which can be applied to all synthetics to kill the static. Clothing manufacturers will plug the fabric as "Astonized...
...show was praised. Then he took aim at the 21-in.-screen hog caller for the world ("When we reach the stage where all of the people are entertained all of the time, we will be very close to having the opiate of the people"), let fly1 at the plug that comes on little blat feet: "More than half the commercials are filled with inanity, asininity, silliness and cheap trickery." TV's Arlene Francis burbled a defense ("We're only babies. We have to grow") after the ancient mellowed slightly and allowed that television is a "young medium...