Word: plunks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Comments ranged from "Excelsior!" to "Pshaw." One high-ranking Administration flunkey said only, "Plunk yore magic twanger, Froggie...
...Delhi National Stadium bulged last week with Indian families in traditional saris and dhotis, but that was as far as tradition went. As the stage lights snapped on to illuminate a blindingly white rectangle of ice-50 ft. wide and 100 ft. long-bedazzled spectators found themselves plunk in the middle of a late model U.S. ice show. A line of leggy chorus girls jazzed across the frozen stage, acrobats jumped, buffoons rocked, swayed and tumbled...
...billion that U.S. airlines will spend by 1962 on 400 new jetliners and improved ground facilities, American will plunk down $440 million, by far the biggest sum of any airline, become the first to shift its line completely to jets. American has ordered $365 million worth of new planes to be delivered by 1962: 25 Boeing 707s for long-distance flights, 25 shorter-range Boeings, 35 Lockheed Electra turboprops for short hops, and 25 Convair 600s, which, if the plane lives up to its billing, will be the world's fastest commercial jet (635 m.p.h...
...which owns the three papers (morning circ. 196,725; evening circ. 214,938; Sunday circ. 317,648), plus the Sun's TV station WMAR. Estimated price for 51% control: $20 million. So eager is Publisher Newhouse to get the prestigious Sunpapers that he might be willing to plunk down more than $40 million for the whole outfit...
...more than any other televiewers in the world, Britons have spots before their eyes. Sandwiched between programs and at "natural breaks," the commercials sometimes run five or six in a row. But they have demonstrated their power as Britain's most effective advertising force. This year advertisers will plunk down some ?50 million to fire their TV messages into almost 6,000,000 British homes. Already British admen are agitating for a third channel-commercial, of course...