Word: spectaculars
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Found More Skeleton." The scheme that finally got Con Man Moore was his "Lost Wheelbarrow Mine." To help promote it, in 1936, he used one of the most spectacular stunts in the long history of mine frauds. He got an unsuspecting partner to tell the story to millions of prospects all at once on the nationwide radio program, We the People...
...third in radio and television's Big Three is coming up in the world. Eight months ago, the American Broadcasting Co., $7,500,000 in debt, merged with United Paramount Theaters (combined assets: over $144 million) in the biggest transaction in broadcasting history. For ABC, it was a spectacular shot in the arm and its first real chance to match bankrolls with NBC and CBS. With its new wealth, ABC promptly paid off its debt and set to work building programs (primarily for TV) and harvesting new affiliates (latest total: 158 TV stations, 363 radio outlets...
...California pulse-feelers debated how much of The Robe's success could be credited to CinemaScope and how much to the lavish production itself and its smasheroo promotion campaign. A few suspected its triumph might be due to the simple fact that with all its spectacular slickness, The Robe was based on a great theme (Christ's passion) written by a popular storyteller (the late Lloyd C. Douglas). As Samuel Goldwyn remarked: "In any consideration of new dimensions for motion pictures, the fact still remains that the most important dimension is that of the story...
Across Long Island Sound, at Oyster Bay, a team of six European skippers raced six U.S. and Canadian skippers to inaugurate an Old World-New World competition in Six-Meter Class boats. Both sides showed spectacular teamwork, covering rivals, stealing their wind while their teammates scudded ahead. In the end, despite the presence of Norway's Crown Prince Olaf at the tiller of one of the European team's six-meters, the New World outsailed the Old, four races...
...first time since the Eisenhower Administration took office, the Treasury saw a chance last week to borrow money at cheaper interest rates. The opportunity was provided by a spectacular turnabout in the Government securities market, as investors briskly bid up prices, thus lowering proportionately the interest rate the Treasury will have to pay to finance new debts. For the first time since they were issued, the Government's new 3¼% 30-year bonds soared past 102, and 2½% Victory Loan bonds went up to 93 30/32, their best price since April. The upturn in the short-term...