Word: productions
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...order. This year some 300 packagers are providing 70% of the regularly scheduled network shows, a fact that to some critics explains many of TV's ills. With so much programing in the hands of outsiders, networks have little control; every rigged quiz started out as a packaged product. Some cozy alliances have been formed between the nets and packagers: NBC has traditionally catered to M.C.A. products, ABC to Warner's imitative westerns...
...dangerous new breed of editorial irresponsibility: the purchase of shows sight unseen. Last spring, Packager Don Sharpe sold Mr. Lucky to CBS; at the time he had neither cast nor pilot-only a script that was later discarded. Independents can sucker networks into financing even the shabbiest of productions. NBC spent $1,300,000 to bankroll 26 episodes of a dreary filmed comedy called Love and Marriage, managed to get some of its money back only by plopping the show into a favorable time (Mon., 8-8:30 p.m. E.S.T.), and selling it to an advertiser (Noxzema) that had long...
...Devilmaker. In general, Bahian art is the product of humble and nameless artisans. But so potent is Exú that even making his image is rarely undertaken except by direct appointment by the Orixás (gods). Top Bahian devilmaker today is Reginaldo Andrade Costa, 28, a part-time garage mechanic who agreed to make them only when a regal candomblé priestess known as a mãe do santo (mother of the saint) explained that the iron figures were harmless until "blessed." His raw material is scrap iron, but Costa's crudely formed statuettes are striking embodiments...
...other big producers expected to pour their first iron and steel in 48 to 96 hours after firing up. By the end of the first week, the industry hopes to be at 25% of capacity; 40% to 70% capacity should come by the second week, depending on the product and the mill; and by the third week, production should reach 80% of capacity. Better than 90% capacity will take another two to three weeks...
...avoid the illusion that the economy is growing faster than it really is when prices are rising, the C.E.D. plotted the gross national product back to 1909 in terms of a "constant dollar" based on the value of the dollar in 1954, when it was considered comparatively stable. Only in this way, said C.E.D., is it possible to "answer such questions as whether our general growth rate has recently been higher, or lower, or about the same as in the past." The C.E.D.'s basic findings...