Word: takings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...such successes are the exception rather than the rule, and most of the critics admit it. The Times's Jack Gould even declines to take credit for getting the Security Council sessions onto the networks. Says he: "I only confirmed a general attitude." Says a network vice president in Chicago: "A lot of network brass would say, 'Oh, yes, we take the critics' opinion seriously,' but they get nothing but a chuckle behind closed doors...
...where, as it happens, Dr. Alfred Kokintz, the great physicist, is putting the final touches to the Q-bomb, a football-shaped object that will erase an area of 2,000,000 square miles if it ever explodes. The bowmen capture the bomb and the man who made it, take them back home. Fenwick, they announce...
...best one-word description of Henry J. Kaiser, 77, and his son Edgar Fosburgh Kaiser, 51, is the title of the TV program sponsored by their $1.8 billion industrial empire: Maverick. Before he moved upstairs to let his son take over, bulldozing Henry J. built a worldwide network of diversified companies with an independence and daring that alternately drew gasps, laughter, and profanity from U.S. industry. Last week Son Edgar once more proved that the Kaisers are mavericks: he settled with the striking United Steelworkers on behalf of his Kaiser Steel Corp., thus breaking the industry's solid ranks...
...crack. K.-F. lost about $52 million before it stopped making passenger cars. Edgar cut the loss by buying up the assets of Jeep-maker Willys-Overland, now Willys Motors, which last year contributed $6,848,000 in earnings to Kaiser Industries. In 1954 he moved West to take charge of the Kaiser empire, and Henry J. headed for Hawaii to build a new empire there, including his latest enthusiasm: a $350 million resort-residential city on East Oahu...
...Take Me Along. O'Neill's Ah, Wilderness! set to music becomes a lilting period piece, bolstered by the vaudeville virtuosity of Jackie Gleason, brightened by the acting talents of Walter Pidgeon, Eileen Herlie and Robert Morse...