Word: unitization
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...brought out its Raleigh cigarettes in a shiny new aluminum foil package, now being tried out in Detroit. The pack, stronger and more moisture-proof than paper, was developed by Reynolds Metals Co. Raleigh hopes to offset the higher material cost by production savings in wrapping the single-sheet unit...
...prizewinning programs apiece. ABC's Elmer Davis and CBS Views the Press divided the award for reporting; ABC's Theatre Guild on the Air and CBS's Studio One split the drama prize; ABC's Boston Symphony wins the music award; CBS's Documentary Unit series gets the education award. Mutual gets only a tiny ray of reflected glory (one of its affiliated stations won a prize). NBC gets nothing...
...rolled its portable television unit into Broadway's Alvin Theater, strung microphones along the footlight trough, and televised some carefully tidied-up scenes from Mister Roberts. It was the première of Lucky Strike's Tonight on Broadway (Tues. 7 p.m., CBS Television), the first of a series of televiews of Broadway hits. Like many a try out performance, the show needed tightening and pruning. It ran ten minutes overtime, poked around too long backstage. There were too many interviews (with Author Thomas Heggen, Producer Leland Hayward, Henry Fonda and the cast), too little of Mister Roberts...
...proxy fight at American Tobacco Co.'s annual meeting were disappointed. George Washington Hill Jr., who resigned in a huff a month ago (TIME, March 29), did not show up. President Vincent Riggio announced a first-quarter sales increase over the same period last year in both unit sales (up 8.10%) and dollar sales (up 8.06%). Stockholders in turn expressed confidence in the management by re-electing 16 directors and voting down a ceiling on executive compensation (Riggio's pay last year...
...Crimson tennis players took off at the crack of dawn today bound for Brunswick, Maine, and a match with Bowdoin. The team is hoping rainclouds will keep away and give them a chance to defeat the Bowdoin unit, which escaped last year when a storm halted played with Harvard ahead...