Word: sponsor
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...negotiate with Beck for Teamsters' sponsorship of a radio program featuring Conductor Milton Katims." Station KXA conceived the idea of such a program; it was offered for sponsorship to many Seattle business firms; subsequently, the agency handling the Western Conference of Teamsters' public relations made arrangements to sponsor it. The "backers of the symphony" did not have anything to do with the program nor did they negotiate with Mr. Beck. Mr. Katims did not have anything to do with the Teamsters Union...
...water, three of its tires had been replaced and it was rolling on new rubber. Sam was still six seconds in the lead. By the time he whipped past the finish flag, he was 17.35 seconds in front of Jim Rathmann's Chiropractic Special (named after its sponsor, Chiropractor Ray Sabourin). He had careened around the 500-lap course in 3 hr. 41 min. 14.25 sec., an average of 135.601 m.p.h.-the fastest 500 on record...
Hank's Belond, named for a sponsor, Exhaust-Pipe Maker Sandy Belond, was one of the lightest and lowest cars in the race. George Salih, the California engineer who designed the car, was a conformist only in his choice of engine. (He used the same four-cylinder Meyer-Drake Offenhauser that powered every car in the race except the two V-8 Novi Specials.) Under the Belond's yellow skin, the time-tested Offy engine was laid on its side. In its unusual mount, the Offy not only ran cooler, it gave the car a sleek, slanted profile...
...Barry and Co-Producer Dan Enright put heads together, agreed that both contestants had missed, and called for a rematch-again at $3,500 a point-next week (Mon. 9 p.m. E.D.T.). Although Bloomgarden must relinquish claim on last week's pot, he gets a guarantee from the sponsor (Geritol) that even if he loses to Snodgrass, he can have the $52,500 he had already won. "Completely fair," said Bloomgarden, and stiffened his axial skeleton, from cervical to coccygeal vertebrae, for a return to battle...
...show. Parker and Hamilton, shrewd cops with good records (whose names are familiar to viewers of Jack Webb's Dragnet), filed complaints of criminal libel against Cohen and his TV hosts both in Los Angeles and Manhattan. Parker announced that he would sue all concerned, including sponsor Philip Morris. Also ready to sue: ex-Mayor Fletcher