Word: problems
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Network televisers, regarded by the moviemakers as dangerous rivals, complain that they cannot afford Hollywood's price for anything better than westerns and ancient grade B's. Independent station WPIX, owned by the New York Daily News, has been solving the problem by importing good movies; last year, it bought from Sir Alexander Korda the rights to 24 British films. Now that the last Korda movies are being televised, WPIX is ready with a new 13-film package-a mixed bag of eleven English and two American hits of a decade...
...issue has been raised," cried the speaker. "The country is looking at what we do in the next half-hour." The issue-whether Communists should be allowed to teach-was far & away the nation's knottiest academic problem. In Boston last week at its annual convention, the powerful National Education Association (825,000 state and national members) took its stand...
...difficulty at first was infertile eggs. As every barnyard observer knows, mating roosters need their wings for balance. Baumann's early wingless roosters were so unstable that often only some 10% of the eggs would hatch at all. Baumann sometimes used artificial insemination. Eventually nature solved the fertility problem. Some of the wingless roosters gradually learned a new technique of wingless balancing...
...everything which does not spring from their own desires, they are convinced in advance that they have nothing to learn and everything to teach, and consequently their aim is loot-to appropriate to themselves the organization, the shell of the institution, and convert it to their own purposes. The problem of the universities today is how to avoid destruction at the hands of men who have no use for their characteristic virtues, men who are convinced only that 'knowledge is power...
Just how this could be done was a problem which the complaint did not discuss. Its only suggestion was that G.M. purchase its own stock from Du Pont...