Word: soaps
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...networks decided last week that soap operas and quiz shows were more important than any live broadcast of Teamster Boss Dave Beck's second big appearance before Senate investigators. Not content with the decision, a dozen stations across the U.S. had the enterprise to form an impromptu network of their own so that one of the year's best running news stories could be heard and seen as it was happening...
...Beaux Arts and talked her way into a job singing in a little Left Bank nightspot. From there she graduated to the big clubs. She writes her own material, all told has turned out some 80 songs, 50 of which have been published. They are simple, marked by a soap-opera concern for the minutiae of middle-class life, and full of frankly sentimental perfume, e.g., "It takes so much love for a single flower to be born of a morning." Micheyl sings the songs in a lilting, open-throated voice, shaking her tight golden curls. Songs like...
CASTOR-OIL SHORTAGE is coming. World demand for next four years will be 565 million Ibs., supply 540 million Ibs., says Department of Commerce. Pinch will hurt U.S. industries using castor oil, e.g., makers of grease, drugs, soap, lubricants for jet planes, plastics, nylon bristle...
...heating and air-conditioning panels. The radio was only as big as a golf ball. The telephone was a movielike screen, which projected both the caller's image and voice. In the kitchen the range broiled thick steaks in barely two minutes. Dishes and clothes were cleaned without soap or water. -The house had no electrical outlets; invisible radio beams ran all appliances. At night, the walls and ceilings glowed softly with glass-encased "light sandwiches," which changed color at the twirl of a dial. And throughout the house, tiny, unblinking bulbs of a strange reddish hue sterilized...
...rapidly (4,000 calculations per second) and remember as many instructions (2,000) as a room-sized computer of 19 tons. Late this summer R-W will put on the market a civilian cousin, which it hopes will completely automate such industries as oil refining, chemicals, metals, drugs, paper, soap and beer. Price of the computer...