Word: plugged
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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CAIRO, March 25--The last big plug was lifted from the Suez Canal today...
...thousands of companies are sending their young men back to school. American Telephone & Telegraph Co. has even gone so far as to send a group of executives t.o the University of Pennsylvania to study literature, thus broaden their minds. Dozens of others such as General Motors AC Spark Plug division, General Electric and Boeing Airplane Co. have set up informal courses within the company to educate workers and help them think more effectively...
...From Producer Frank Ross, who popularized eye-stretching CinemaScope with The Robe, came a surprisingly frank plug for oldfashioned, small-screen, black-and-white films. Ross noted that CinemaScope is fine for sweeping horizons, but added: "If the subject ¶ has power and the scenes themselves are what you want to show, don't tinsel it up with CinemaScope." ¶Sorely beset, RKO peddled distribu tion rights to 44 films (including eleven not yet released) to prosperous rival Universal-International, hoped to save some $7,000,000 by the deal, wearily acknowledged that it is exploring a new source...
...interest on the part of industry to make its home in North Dakota, tried to find out what was wrong with the state. It was not Lawrence Welk's fault. As a matter of fact, Welk has seldom missed a chance to give the old homestead a warm plug on his TV show. It was just that so many people on the outside have the ridiculous idea that prairie-patched North Dakota is too blamed cold in the winter (lowest recorded temp.: -60°) and too darned hot in the summer (highest...
...R.P.M. RECORDS are being slashed in price to get bigger share of booming teen-age market for inexpensive disks. RCA Victor will spend $1,000,000 in 1957 for ads to plug 45s, has cut album prices up to 40%. RCA and top rival Columbia will price individual extended-play 45s at $1.29, down from...