Word: slices
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Three shows stood out in the TV week. One was a nostalgic drama more than two decades old. One was a giveaway show to end giveaway shows. The third was a slice of life televised from a real operating room...
Many showmen seem a little ashamed of the cooking part of the show, and often sandwich it like an old piece of dry ham between a slice of news and a slice of music, both considered more substantial and more palatable...
...although it receives the largest single slice of Ford Foundation money, education represents only a part of the Foundation's work. "We will support activities that promise significant contributions to world peace and the establishment of a world order of law and justice," the trustees said in their 1950 report...
...cutting back and holding down federal taxes and expenditures, the Eisenhower Administration has sliced off a slightly smaller cut of the tax pie for the Federal Government. Last week, as state legislatures were completing their 1955 sessions, it was clear that the states are reaching out for a bigger and bigger slice. Said Chicago's Frank Bane, executive director of the Council of State Governments for the past 17 years: "In raising state taxes, there is a more extensive and more concerted drive this year -with more results. The increase this year will be almost twice as extensive...
...Swiss have been hard hit by competition from the German watchmaking industry. Unhampered by rigid price fixing, the Germans have snatched up a fat slice of the Swiss watchmakers' markets in Scandinavia, the Far East and the U.S., with prices as much as 20% lower. On top of that, Swiss watchmakers, whose exports to the U.S. were already dropping, were further hurt by the 50% boost in U.S. tariffs last summer (TIME, Aug. 9). Their exports to the U.S. market dropped from $68 million in 1953 to $51 million in 1954, and are still running down. As a result...