Word: zenith
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...limpid moon ascends majestically to her zenith, to the wistful baying of the tethered hound; as the last stately ice floe drifts sedately between the burgeoning shores of the historic Charles, then indeed is the voice of the turtle heard in the land...
...Enduring Honor. In postwar Britain, it was George's constitutional duty to approve legislation that created the welfare state and wrested from the crown its brightest single jewel, the Indian Empire. Yet in drab, austere, Socialist Britain, the popularity of the monarchy reached a new zenith. Britons clung to the royal family as the last source of traditional color and ancient ceremony. And the royal family was something much more, though more intangible: the visible embodiment of good form-what the British call "decency." King George's quiet courage, his unostentatious persistence in meeting the everyday duties...
...federal grand jury recognized that talent last October, indicted Finnegan for accepting bribes from taxpayers and taking fees to represent clients before Government agencies. This week brought to light a new fact in the wake of Finnegan's exposure. The St. Louis Globe-Democrat disclosed that the Zenith Radio Corp. paid him $50,000, while he was still St. Louis collector, to get scarce film with which to test Zenith's Phonevision sets. Until Finnegan went to work for Zenith, the movie companies had been most reluctant to cooperate with Zenith. But they were so anxious to cooperate...
...newcomer to the G.E. hierarchy, was picked by ex-President Charlie Wilson, who was impressed by Nance's work as a member of WPB's advisory board for industry. He was already a veteran in the electrical industry, had managed Frigidaire's commercial refrigeration department, bossed Zenith Radio's wartime production. Charlie Wilson liked his zip, enthusiasm and selling touch. He sent him to Chicago in 1946 as executive vice president of a G.E. subsidiary then called Edison General Appliance Co. The company's chief value was its brand name, Hotpoint, first nationally advertised appliance...
...from his plans to expand RCA into new territory. He is already itching to put RCA into the electric-appliance business, NBC into the movie business (to make films for television), and is planning a "pay-as-you-hear" TV system which would not depend on telephones as does Zenith Radio Corp.'s system (TIME, June 4). Above all, he is confident that the vast sums he has poured into research will continue to pay off with more spectacular advances than even his color television tube...