Word: texaco
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...close its doors-to both its "separate but equal" wings. For food, Negroes queued up at small Negro-owned markets or shared rides to neighboring Auburn and Columbus. Tuskegee's Fortune Fish Market shut down. Then Cooper's Market, on the town square, folded, along with a Texaco service station and the David Lee Clothing Store. White clerks began counting their days at idle five-and-ten counters. Some clerks lost their jobs. Merchants advertised special sales, open credit, looked in vain for expected "sympathy motorcades" of white shoppers from other Alabama towns. Says Proprietor L. M. Hill...
...Murder for Hallmark Hall of Fame. Ex-Cinemoppet Shirley Temple acts as hostess and sometimes star of a new fairy-tale series, and NBC Opera Company will do Rigoletto, Die Meistersinger and Poulenc's Dialogues of the Carmelites. Ed Wynn will get the first star-studded salute from Texaco Command Appearance, an hour-long series spotlighting big-time performers. Henry Saloman's Project 20 will do The Innocent Years (1900-14) and Back in the Thirties; James Michener will produce a one-shot on Southeast Asia, and a new series called Wisdom will present filmed portraits...
...provincial governments hold up to 90% of all mineral rights and in the West usually lease them in 100,000-acre blocks (price to Imperial recently: $1,700,000), even the biggest outfit often finds it wise to have allies rather than shoulder the expensive risk alone. Texaco, for example, is the chief operator of the four-company Northern Foothills Agreement Group, which holds drilling rights to 3,500,000 acres in Peace River's Boundary Lake area. Some other big-time gamblers pushing out from Peace River...
...keep picking up the tabs. This was especially reassuring in view of the continuing decline of network radio programing and the high mortality rate of long-run good-music shows, e.g., The Voice of Firestone. To its everlasting credit-and to the extra delight of opera listeners-Sponsor Texaco has been as tasteful as it has been generous. In the three to five hours of air time it buys every Saturday, 20 weeks a year, there is not a single commercial. In spots totaling less than one minute. Texaco is politely identified as sponsor. The company is rewarded with some...
...Minute Labyrinth. Since Texaco became sponsor in 1940, the program has introduced regular intermission features such as Opera News on the Air, Opera Quiz, and Clifton Fadiman's interviews as a roving reporter. Before that, Announcer Cross sometimes had to ad-lib for as long as 35 minutes. "Frantically reaching for ideas," he recalls, "I once described the labyrinth of paths beneath the opera house, then the cellar under the stage where the technicians were located." Another time he "dwelt thoughtfully on the numbers on the railroad cars" in which each singer would travel on tour...