Word: rutted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...shows last week had to get out of town. The migratory programs were Today, Home and Tonight. The stimulus to move was provided by NBC President Sylvester ("Pat") Weaver, who thinks that the TV tendency to originate everything from Manhattan or Hollywood may eventually get the industry in a rut. At Weaver's orders Today and Tonight took off for Miami Beach where their prize funnymen, Dave Garroway and Steve Allen, working in the open air, shivered on the TV screens in Florida's "unseasonable weather." Home, after a stopover in Chicago, took Arlene Francis and her pots...
...that was worrying NBC's Weaver last week, he did not show it. He had brought the excitement of the year to the business, forced his competitor CBS into some spectaculars of its own (although that is never admitted), and jarred the advertising men out of their rut...
...deterioration in the world situation. The Communist states have won major victories and the U.S. has lost respect and confidence . . . At home the economy seems to be creeping toward G.O.P. normalcy. The Administration is right when it says we are not in a depression. We are just in a rut. We are having a second-best year, and it is the optimists, not the pessimists, who hold out the hope that next year may not be much worse...
...Rut. To help motorists stuck in snow and mud, Campbell Chain Co. of York, Pa. has put on sale curved metal lugs that snap easily around tires. The Traction Klips, designed for emergency grip action, are flipped off with a special lever. Price: $5 a pair...
...Rut. As president of the new combine, in stepped able James J. (for John) Nance, 53, the automaker who pulled Packard out of the rut two years ago. Coming to Packard from General Electric's Hotpoint division (TIME, May 19, 1952), Nance found a company suffering from old age. Packard's plants were among the mustiest and least efficient in the industry; its sales organization was without drive or direction; its executives were aging and set in their ways. The company made money, but largely because of defense production and the happy fact that 1952 was still...