Word: smashes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Only a few weeks before its smash opening, the festival had looked like a spectacular flop. Before a single ticket had been sold, the committee was more than $100,000 in debt for the experimental tent theater. Production costs soared to $220,000. Promotor Tom Patterson, the Stratford magazine editor who first thought of the festival, had been able to collect only $40,000 from local contributors...
...Texas, The Moon Is Blue, though blackballed by the Legion of Decency and lacking the Production Code approval, was outgrossing the Oscar-winning western box-office smash, High Noon, in both Fort Worth and Dallas...
...when a mass of metal (i.e., an automobile) has passed over them. This makes each moving car drag after it a moving "tail" of signals. When the car behind it gets too close, the block signals (acting on engine and brakes) slow it down in time to avoid a smash. The transmitters allow for the speed of both the leading and the following car. If the car ahead stops completely, its electronic tail reaches far behind to ward off oncoming cars. If the car behind is moving rapidly, it begins to slow down as soon as it treads...
This week 150 U.S. theaters will have fresh prints, and one U.-I. official, delighted by a surprise box-office smash, crowed: "However fantastic it all sounds, don't believe it-it's even more fantastic than that...
...Four Conference. Churchill was convinced that the No. i objective of Soviet policy is to smash the Anglo-American alliance. As evidence, he told the P.M.s that Soviet Ambassador Jacob Malik had approached him last week suggesting a Churchill-Malenkov chat as a preliminary to the Bermuda conference...