Word: sellouts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...real one in France. When some 60 dailies cluttered Paris kiosks in the 1920s, bankers and munitions makers kept newspapers like mistresses. By World War II, big business had a firm grip on the major Paris dailies. Afterward, millions of angry Frenchmen blamed business for the papers' sellout to collaborationists...
...continually attempting things that have not been done before" and rated him "the most original and interesting of the younger men." The Observer agreed, found it difficult to name a British contemporary "so exciting and fertile." The buyers backed the critics; Middleditch wound up his show with a near sellout, collected...
Hollywood's sellout to TV last week moved into the multimillion-dollar bracket. Thomas F. O'Neil, president of General Teleradio and new board chairman of RKO Radio Pictures, announced a $15 million deal with C & C Super Corp., which has taken a perpetual lease on 740 RKO features and 1,000 shorts. The features include such old favorites as Gunga Din, Citizen Kane, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Abe Lincoln in Illinois, Kitty Foyle, Stage Door, Having Wonderful Time, Once Upon a Honeymoon and eight Fred Astaire-Ginger Rogers musicals. All the films in the package...
...Sellout. The push to find more and better methods of producing more and better products is a major factor in the current demand for engineers. Georgia Tech's placement bureau, which will be sold out of 1956 graduates by May, is already taking orders for the class of 1957. The demand has led to a story of the civil engineer who, tired of using a transit for the state highway department, went to work for a major oil company. Three months later he was back asking for his old job. The new job had been fine, he said...
...Luis Miguel Dominguin, 30, most artful living bullfighter, who retired in 1953 after eleven active years. The privilege cost Maracay $50,000 for two weekend corridas. That was the highest pay ever given to a bullfighter, but the promoter knew what he was doing; it was a near sellout at $10 to $50 a seat...