Word: renwick
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...early investors in ATV. A single original share in ATV that sold for 20? is now worth $30.80. Norman Collins, 51, author and TV executive who originally put up $7,000 of the $50,000 that launched ATV, now finds his shares worth $1,400,000. Sir Robert Renwick, industrialist and broker who invested $4,200, has shares worth $959,500, and Charles Orr Stanley, chairman of Pye radio and TV company, has seen his shares burgeon...
...Collins, Renwick and Stanley pioneered commercial TV in Britain in the day when the nation was generally against commercial TV on principle. Led by Collins, who walked out of a $10,400-a-year job as a BBC-TV program director, because his bosses were too stuffy, the three managed to push through the Television Act that established commercial TV, set up four TV studios to broadcast...
...exploit gave the U.S. and Canada a perfect record for reciprocal lend-lease in medical imposters. Quebec-born William Renwick MacLeod did his practicing without a license in the U.S., went to jail for it (TIME, Sept...