Word: twentieths
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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With the usual pompous introduction praising the great, new medium CinemaScope, Twentieth Century-Fox plunges Beneath the 12-Mile Reef. It seems like the longest dive in motion picture history, and when everyone including the fish come up for air several hours later, there is little doubt that the CinemaScope millennium has not quite arrived...
...Herman A. Heise showed the latest gadgets developed for the A.M.A. and the National Safety Council to provide legal proof of drunken driving. Chief problem, even with the popular "Drunkometer," is that there is no clear line between sobriety and "under the influence." With less than one-twentieth of 1% alcohol in the blood, nearly everybody can drive safely; with more than three-twentieths, virtually nobody can. But within that range, different individuals have their faculties impaired to very different degrees. The solution: results of these gadget tests must be used to confirm other evidence...
This will be the first time a program by a twentieth century poet with an established reputation has been selected by the theatre. The plays will run for four consecutive nights through Sunday...
...increase of 7% to 10% in present world production of consumer goods and services. This is the estimate of Economists Wladimir and Emma Woytinsky, a husband & wife team who have spent five years compiling an exhaustive (1,268 pages) study, World Population and Production, published by the Twentieth Century Fund...
...Secret, Douglas Fairbanks Jr. swaps his sword for a stethoscope and his cape for a trenchcoat, but the picture lacks none of the swashbuckling verve of his earlier efforts. Without benefit of a princess, a stolen treasure, or a single duel, the old master manages to find in the Twentieth Century all the components of absorbing high adventure...