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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...vice chairman of the board) is Paul Kesten, who looked after CBS while Paley was overseas. But Kesten is on leave because of ill health, so the second biggest wig is now worn by Dr. Frank Stanton, 38-year-old former psychology professor, and new CBS president...
...Russell-Pace rider the farm bloc is busy at another battle-worn technique: adding new costs to the parity formula. In 1935 interest and taxes were grafted on, raising the cost side of the parity index from 125% to 130%. At that time no farmer wanted to include farm labor costs: it would have dropped the index four percentage points. Today it is another story; wages are on the up, and they can drag parity...
Contact lenses worn by actors, athletes and people who don't want to wear spectacles have three principal drawbacks: 1) friction of the eye against the lens irritates the cornea, makes it difficult to wear the glasses more than eight consecutive hours; 2) high cost (up to $250); 3) fitting, which involves making a wax cast of the eyeball...
...Allied Headquarters. Three days after the occupation began, Dyke, a former NBC executive, began clearing the BCJ air. By strict censorship and appointment of the advisory committee, he freed noncommercial BCJ of government domination. He also ordered Japan to build some three million new radio sets to replace worn out sets or those destroyed...
...food was only one Peró weapon. The Argentines were now ready to spend from $1 to $1½ billion to bring their war-worn economy up to date, and make it more self-sufficient. Peró wants machine tools, trucks, oilfield equipment, and engineering savvy to advance Argentina in the familiar pattern of totalitarian autarkic...