Word: giveaway
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fast will the XF7U-1 go? It is no secret (and the shape itself would be a giveaway) that it was designed to fly considerably faster than Mach 1. Navy Test Pilot Captain F. M. Trapnell, who is putting the XF7U-1 through its paces, said that he has not yet worked it to top speed or top altitude. He expects, however, that it will prove "the fastest of them...
Still sniping at giveaway shows in his own field, pouch-eyed Radio Comic Fred Allen found time to fire a pot shot at a neighbor: "I haven't bothered much about television ... I think the men who used to take passport pictures are now the cameramen ... it seems to be nothing but radio fluoroscoped...
...Early morning and late evening programs are out. The day's broadcasting starts 15 minutes before noon and ends at 9:15 p.m.-with a prayer at each end of the schedule. There is not one comedian or giveaway show in between...
...giveaway show, Stop the Music, appearing at the same time as Fred Allen, has caused the bag-eyed comedian's Hooperating to drop far below sea level. This week, Allen made a heroic try at recapturing some of the prize-greedy fans. After an opening fanfare, Allen's announcer advised listeners to relax, because "for the next thirty minutes you are guaranteed." He explained that Allen had arranged with the National Surety Corp. to replace any article of merchandise, or any cash up to $5,000, that any listener might lose because he was listening to Allen instead...
Last week Mutual offered Split the Atom, the first of a series of tinsel-wrapped, icing-covered educational programs. Plugged as a giveaway show, advertised with titillating copy ("Is it serious? Or just plain delirious? You'll be frightened . . . and enlightened. You'll laugh . . . and you'll learn"), and presented before a typical studio audience of 900 people, Split the Atom was even endowed with a sponsor ("Nature, spelled NATURE, world's greatest manufacturer of energy...