Word: sponsor
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...stand with Rickover were Admiral Robert Carney, Chief of Naval Operations, and a swarm of the Navy's highest brass, industrialists. Senators, atomic scientists-and Sponsor Mamie Eisenhower, carrying a big bunch of roses and smiling pertly at everyone. The Coast Guard band played a specially written march, The Nautilus, and then there were the speeches. "A launching," said Lewis Strauss, chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission, "is always a prophetic and romantic occasion, but this literally transcends all which have gone before. For the Nautilus is ... something new under...
...another front, the storm clouds over Godfrey were dissolved in a flood of financial sunshine. CBS reported that the programs relinquished by Godfrey's long time sponsor Chesterfield cigarettes had all been bought up by four other advertisers: Minnesota Mining & Manufacturing Co. (Scotch tape), Toni Co., Pillsbury Mills and Frigidaire...
...Baltimore, Louis Strom complained in a federal court suit that he never received the $7,250 home he won a year ago on TV's What's Your Bid? Strom protested that sponsor Charles Antell, Inc., its advertising agency and Prefabricators, Inc. held him off for eight months, then asked him to settle for a $4,600 house. His plea to the court: make Prefabricators, Inc.1) give him the promised house, or 2) pay him $7,250 in cash plus $2,500 damages...
...Mask has broken the taboo by starting at 8 p.m. on Sunday nights. Only two future network shows are scheduled (a revival of Mr. & Mrs. North; and 21st Precinct, starring Paul Kelly) but they will probably do no more than replace other crime shows due to expire because of sponsor failure...
...what he can read? Congress? The churches? . . . Our own grand jury? None of them, if you ask us.' The committee was not formed." ¶ In Miami, the News and the Herald so severely attacked a censorship board set up by the city commission that the board's sponsor finally "declared that it would not attempt to interfere with legitimate books...