Word: watchdogs
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...concentrated at the beginning and end of the hour, or during "natural breaks" in the program. No sponsor may pick his own show: his sales message must be rotated in different spots according to the convenience of the program companies who rent TV facilities from the government's watchdog Independent Television Authority. This has caused some heartburn among admen. Groaned one: "Suppose a cigaret commercial gets placed next to a discussion of lung cancer...
...rocket-powered Bell X-1A was fastened in its perch on the belly of its B-29 mother ship, and carried 30,000 ft. for a series of routine rolls, climbs and pushups above California's Mojave Desert. As usual, a Sabre jet fighter flew behind as a watchdog "chase" plane...
...Wrong. The week's first witness was Chairman William McChesney Martin Jr. of the Federal Reserve Board, watchdog of the nation's credit and onetime president of the New York Stock Exchange. Previous witnesses, notably Harvard's Galbraith, had testified that margin requirements should be raised, perhaps as high as 100%. Did Martin agree? He did not, since credit denied to the market would just move into other fields...
...army marshals, made him a Deputy Minister of Defense. After Beria's arrest, Zhukov took his seat on the Communist Central Committee. In last week's shuffle, Zhukov at last reached a position of first rank-though still lower than that of the party's watchdog of the military, Marshal Bulganin...
...spoilers reacted. They argued that the WEU bill had been amended since last week and that a new bill had to be drafted. The Foreign Affairs Committee rejected Mendes' draft. He drafted another version, carrying an amendment by Gaullist Leon Noel, onetime ambassador to Poland, to create a watchdog committee on German rearmament. That made it a new bill, the spoilers declared, and it must have a new vote of confidence, which requires 24 hours delay. Wearily, Mendes had to yield...