Word: productive
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...realistic reporting yet devised for documentary film. Unlike any documentary before it, See It Now sends its cameras after a story without any script, shoots everything with sound, never dubs afterwards, never rehearses an interview, shoots as much as 20 hours of film for one hour of the final product-a ratio greater than any other TV show, newsreel or Hollywood itself. The method is costly in effort and money-$100,000 a show (plus $75,000 for TV time). Though Sponsor Pan American World Airways picks up part of the tab, CBS loses money on the program. Murrow...
Johnson was apparently referring to the newly-stated complaint that although the organization might make it possible for more agents to earn more money, student customers might be forced to pay more for a product than any increased profit to agents would justify...
...allied but not so product-minded group is the bohemian circle. While the artist spends considerable time suffering so he might be happy eventually, the bohemian can be happy all the time so long as he presents a miserable exterior. There are hundreds of these lonely aesthetics and they have arranged certain ways of dress and speech (not to mention thought) which are well accepted and, at the same time, different...
...routine on top of a giant birthday cake, plugging a movie called Rainbow Road to Oz. Peter Pan Peanut Butter interrupted a fetching cartoon depiction of Prokofiev's Peter and the Wolf, which Disney dragged out of his attic of past hits for a commercial on its crunchy product. Even Alice in Wonderland got helplessly involved in the selling melee: "Was it the smile on my Cheshire cat," asks Alice, "or the smile on my Jello...
...issue was RCA's industry-blanketing pool of an estimated 15,000 patents which for years has given RCA a royalty percentage, e.g., an average 2% on radios, on almost every single product of its smaller rivals. To get an RCA license, the smaller makers had to pay for an entire package of patents which often contained items they did not need. But RCA, which earns an estimated $35 million annually from the pool, has long insisted that because its industry-leading research created most of the patents and continually creates more, it deserves a fair return...