Word: starting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...activity again with a new pro-culture idea called Program Service, a high-class passel of TV shows that Weaver hopes to beam from stations in 15 "great bellwether markets." Aiming to operate above and beyond the ratings rat race. Pat Weaver, anxious to "enlighten and enrich," will soon start sending out signals to "all the mad scientists in the entertainment and information fields to start brewing their heady brews." Meanwhile, Quiz Whiz Charles Van Doren signed an exclusive five-year contract with NBC at a salary "close to $50,000 a year." Though a programing consultant, and possibly...
...anyone had done anything for me that I didn't have to pay for. It made quite an impression." What could Corpier do, he asked himself, to help somebody else? Last summer he persuaded Associate Warden T. M. Woodruff of the New Mexico state prison to let him start a course in electronics for convicts...
...This combination is nothing like the complete launching vehicle. The second-stage rocket will contain the most subtle guiding instruments, and its omission will make the flight a comparatively crude affair. But valuable information can be gathered about the performance of the third-stage rocket, whose purpose is to start firing about 300 miles above the surface and reach the necessary speed (18,000 m.p.h.) to stay in an orbit around the earth...
...soul-searching in Editor's first issue would have seemed even more impressive in the pages of the 22 New England papers that have chipped in to start the quarterly ($1.50 a copy) now being mailed to the editors of most U.S. dailies. But it bore out Editor Lindstrom's words. Items...
...been making money." In the last pre-strike year, 1953, Kohler paid $390,509 to Wisconsin, Pomfret reported. This dropped drastically to $124,144 in 1954, when the strike closed the Kohler plant for two months, but bounded back in 1955 to $455,261. Last year, paralleling the start of the boycott and the slump in housing starts, the figure settled to $336,856. Kohler's competitors said last week that the company is holding fast to its traditional No. 2 spot in the plumbing-ware industry, just behind the American Radiator & Standard Sanitary Corp. Admitted one competitor: "Kohler...