Word: reached
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...make a dead end of the Civil Service. To deny highly trained and experienced career men the opportunity to make and defend policy decisions would be foolish. No man will devote his time and money to training for the civil service if he knows that he can never reach a position of real responsibility. To restrict policy-making to political appointees would automatically remove the incentive which motivates capable men and women to spend years working their way up through the lower echelons of the government. The immediate result would be to decrease both the quantity and quality of applications...
...Bartlesville scheme will be watched closely from Washington, Manhattan and Hollywood. Says Shapp: "This will make it possible for exhibitors to reach an audience they have never before reached. By electronic means, the walls of the conventional theater are pushed outward to surround the entire city and make it a giant theater." If it works as well as surveys suggest it will, the company expects it to spread across the country and to cover special sport events, opera and live plays as well as movies...
...program which will "excite youngsters [he has five of his own] into involvement with the world." All he needs, says Saudek, is "the well-conceived idea, the well-written word, the well-cast performer and the well-spent dollar." And he believes that all of them are within reach...
Portable Electric Typewriter. Smith-Corona put on sale the first production models of its new 18-lb. portable electric typewriter. Convenient for travelers, the portable is also aimed at bringing the uniform printing-press quality of costlier full-size electric models within reach of small business and professional men. Price...
...course of The Sin of Pat Muldoon, playwright John McLiam has the hero reach through the window of his Santa Clara, California, home to pluck an orange from a tree growing in the back yard. Somewhat later he informs the audience that redwoods grow along the town's main street. I am prepared to testify that in my ten years' residence in the San Francisco Bay Area I have not seen a single orange tree there, and that no redwoods stand in the center of Santa Clara. It would, though, be a pleasure to forgive Mr. McLiam his horticultural inaccuracies...