Word: spurs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...service and to corner the limited supply of performing talent and first-run movies. This may pinch the viewer; since his set can be adjusted to receive only one pay system, it will be blacked out of the good shows on the other systems. The sweaty competition will also spur attempts by the established free TV networks to muscle out the pay-TV upstarts. Yet some of its most ardent opponents were pleased that pay TV will be put to a three-year test. Said American Broadcasting Co.'s Vice President Sterling C. ("Red"') Quinlan: "I hope...
This summer, as usual, the people of Fish Creek turned out to honor the orchestra and Conductor Johnson at an annual feature: the festival fish boil, held on a spur of grassy land jutting into the lake. It seemed to prove that people would buy the new guys as well as the old-if they were sold right...
...ladies at the opening of a church bazaar, writes with authentic familiarity about the men who opened the American West. When the dude reader is informed by the publisher that "there is something about a Colt .44 beside the typewriter that inspires me," or that Miss Johnson won a spur from that loose-lipped but hard-writing outfit called the Western Writers of America, Inc., he may well suspect that he is in for a good fat slice from the gun-smoked hams of cowboy fiction-Zane Grey, William MacLeod Raine, or Clarence E. (Hopalong Cassidy) Mulford...
WEST GERMAN INFLATION will be eased by 25% tariff cut designed to spur import of low-cost foreign goods, trim West Germany's $4.95 billion gold and foreign-exchange reserves, which are mounting at rate of $1 billion a year. To tighten domestic money supply the Bank Deutscher Laender (the government's central bank) will also lend $100 million to World Bank at terms of from one to three years at 4¼% interest...
...hard-ever since Texas Eastern first asked FPC permission in 1954. But the FPC ruled that the Texas Eastern products line would benefit the public by stimulating competition, even though it might hurt the barge business. Already big Midwest refiners are seeking ways to use the proposed Chicago spur to their profit, while Sinclair, Texas and Gulf are talking about a similar products line to be constructed next year from outside Philadelphia to Cleveland. In addition, Texas Eastern got FPC permission last year to spend $74.7 million on a 422-mile line south from near Beaumont, which will soon bring...