Word: screens
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...over the country, strong arms and keen minds will move as one man towards the culmination of the annual celebration of this vegetable. The National Pickle Packers Association will hold a convention that will turn the American Legion green with envy. From a line of glorious stars of the screen, the chairman of the group will crown a Pickle Queen. Once more, America will acknowledge the stupendous role the pickle has played in the flowering of the human spirit...
...city bar rails along the coast and in the Midwest, there is hardly room for another foot. For the next hour, wherever a signal from an NBC television transmitter can be picked out of the air, a large part of the population has its eyes fixed on a TV screen...
...offers all the visual razzle-dazzle a TV screen can hold. With at least five costume changes in each show, he has bounced on as Superman, Li'l Abner, Santa Claus, an Easter bunny, Father Time and Rosie O'Grady. He has made entrances by dog sled, donkey, horse chariot, kiddie car and parachute. He often coaxes the unexpected out of his guest stars: Gracie Fields sang for him in a bathing suit, and the Metropolitan's Tenor Lauritz Melchior in blackface...
This week Dom was turning out 225 cabinets a day at one-half to one-third the cost of wooden ones. In them Brother Ross was installing 10-inch screen television sets. The price: $249.95, about $50 cheaper than the closest competitive model. Siragusa raised Admiral's 1949 production goal from 400,000 units to 500,000, planned to spend $1,000,000 this month alone in advertising...
...Undercover Man (Columbia) is another hare & hounds episode produced with the help of U.S. Government files. The hare in this instance is a character called "The Big Fellow" who never appears on the screen, but who seems to be modeled on the late Al Capone. Heading the hounds is Glenn Ford as a Government T-man who is out to nail The Big Fellow on a $3,000,000 tax-evasion...