Word: squawks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Chicago's radio and television stations, Lar Daly, an obscure stool jobber with an unappeased appetite for public office, is a chronic squawk of static. Each time Perennial Candidate Daly runs for mayor of Chicago or President of the U.S., he shrilly demands his full free share of the air waves.* By law he has it coming: Section 315 of the Communications Act, the so-called "equal time" provision, requires a broadcasting station to give any political candidate as much time as it gives any other-as Daly knows full well. Last week Lar Daly's insistence...
...today. There's nothing prohibitive about $4 a year for a home-town newspaper. That's about 7½ ? a copy. About half our readers loll around coffee shops swilling from four to twelve cups of 10? coffee every day. They shouldn't squawk about paying the price of one cup of coffee for what we work all week to produce, and to improve their minds with our version of whatinell's happening...
...colored bars of uranium 235 from the bottom of one pool and guiding them gently into the other. As they did, a gauge of amber-colored numbers shot up and up. Near by, another figure stood ready to halt the proceedings by pushing a button marked SCRAM. Directed the squawk box: "Insert H-6." As the last bar moved into place, an amber smear shot across the gauge, the radiation count soared to a million a second -and an atomic blaze sprang to life. Thus the nation's first large, privately owned test reactor, built by General Electric...
Shaunessy observed that his opinion on this matter was shared "all around the league," and suggested that "Jordan Olivar has a nerve to squawk...
...producer runs over his budget, U.A. lets him alone, keeps its fingers crossed; the extra cost may be made up at the box office. Says Director William Wyler, who is $1,000,000 over his budget as he winds up making The Big Country: "I wish these guys would squawk. It would make me feel better...