Word: broads
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...broad-boulevarded tropical city of Leopoldville one day last month, a security officer handed the Belgian Governor General a piece of paper with a song written on it. The composer was unknown, but the song itself was being sung at nationalist meetings throughout the territory. "Congoland, land of our forebears," ran the opening lines, "we will fight for your freedom, if blood must run in streams." Last week, after the worst eruption the Congo had seen in a decade, blood did in fact run in Léopoldville...
...usual excuse for the commercial vaccine's failures. So the mass-produced vaccine must be beefed up to the potency level of his laboratory brand. But Dr. Salk also conceded defects in the design of the vaccine itself. It contains three strains of polio virus for the three broad types that can independently cause disease- Mahoney for Type I, MEF-1 for Type II. and Saukett for Type III. About 80% of paralytic polio used to be caused by Type I strains; of the balance, Type III caused slightly more than half, leaving Type II as the least dangerous...
Remarkable Resemblance. With that, Maverick gleefully dropped most of its own identity, loped off on a laconic parody called Gunshy. As played by Ben Gage, tall, broad-beamed Marshal Mort Dooley looked remarkably like Gunsmoke's tall, broad-beamed Marshal Matt Dillon. But unlike Dillon, Dooley is a businessman ("I own 37½% of the Weeping Willow Saloon") and contemplator ("This is Boot Hill-I like to come up here sometimes, to think, and maybe get a grave or two ahead"). With the help of the "finest undertaker west of Dodge City," Doc Stucke (clearly related to Gunsmoke...
...Judged from the broad end of the picture tube, television had a bad year; its brightest moment shone like a candle in a morass of mediocre programs. But commercially, the industry seemed to be doing better than ever. Advertisers paid out a record $1.42 billion, a gross increase of 10% over 1957. By year's end the U.S. had a total of 512 operating TV stations (there were 495 at the end of 1957) catering to nearly 50 million TV receivers...
...broad and unwieldy after a decade of tremendous wartime and postwar growth. Cordiner split it into 27 autonomous divisions containing no small companies just the size "for one man to get his arms around." The head of each company is the boss, just as if he were running his own company. Within a loose framework of policy, he makes day-today decisions, sets his own budget, raises or lowers prices, sets up his own design and marketing policies, even makes capital expenditures...