Word: proofing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...proof that bygones were bygones, for it was battle-seasoned Captain Burke who ran Operation 23, propaganda center of the Navy's unsuccessful revolt against Defense Secretary Louis Johnson and the 6-36. His name had been scratched off the promotion list a month ago-reportedly by Louis Johnson. That it got back on was a victory for Admiral Forrest Sherman, the new Chief of Naval Operations...
Though Invitation's average rating is dwarfed by that of a Walter Winchell Sunday broadcast, it still represents a multitude of listeners. Surveys have indicated that the audience varies between 800,000 and 3,000,000. To Educator Lyman Bryson, a frequent panel member, this is heartening proof that "the audience, although small in comparison with big-time entertainment audiences, is still a multitude ... It is still big enough to show that discussions of Spinoza and Plato and Melville and Fielding and Locke and Shelley and Confucius and Racine and the Bhagavad-Gita are suitable for a mass medium...
...Triple-A S" (American Association for the Advancement of Science). They were predominantly male, on the average surprisingly young (thirtyish), and anything but grave. They streamed from meeting to meeting, interrupted the speakers, held sub-conclaves in corners. Even a casual glance at the Triple-A S gave proof that U.S. science is on its toes, confident and properly concerned with running down facts...
...most enterprising of the new generation was squat, baby-faced Photographer Ivo Meldolesi, 34, who was acquitted of collaboration charges in 1945 for "insufficient proof of guilt." Last spring, Meldolesi made front pages in Europe and the U.S. with two notable beats. Masquerading as a Capri fisherman, he snapped the only picture of Britain's Princess Margaret in a bathing suit; later, he surprised camera-shy Greta Garbo without her hat, got a shot of her covering her face with her long, tawny hair. Last week, Meldo-lesi's energy and enterprise landed him his biggest scoop...
...been processed by six companies-spinner, throwster, weaver, etc.-and was priced to retail for $49.95. By 1948, said Greene-walt, "60% of Du Pont sales consisted of products that did not exist or were not in large-scale commercial production just two decades ago." Among them: moisture-proof Cellophane, and the new, tougher synthetic "orlon," which may replace nylon. All of them had cost tremendous sums to develop...