Word: hullabaloo
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...first get-going months of the Eisenhower Administration. Commerce Secretary Sinclair Weeks resoundingly stubbed his toe by firing Dr. Allen V. Astin, 49, head of the National Bureau of Standards, in a row over Bureau tests of the battery additive AD-X2 (TIME, April 27). In the ensuing hullabaloo of scientific outrage and threatened resignations, Weeks reconsidered, decided to keep Astin for a few months, ostensibly while he looked for a permanent replacement...
...whenever businessmen pin the Reds down, it turns out that what they really want is heavy goods either embargoed or in short supply. Even the Socialist British Trades Union Congress minimizes the chances of expanding trade with the East. Last week it reported that all the Moscow conference hullabaloo produced only $20 million worth of new orders, "and these were not mainly for consumer goods...
...over the U.S. without raising any moral protests, and that any number of current movies are far more tawdry, sensual and suggestive. The Moon Is Blue controversy may well turn out to be a major test of screen censorship. But whatever the outcome, it appears certain that all the hullabaloo will help The Moon Is Blue wind up in the black at the box office...
...extraordinary run of luck," said Housewife Small. Then, flustered by the hullabaloo, she left town for the Easter holidays, leaving her golf clubs behind...
...franchise had been transferred to Dallas this year with notable hullabaloo. Texans, priding themselves on the biggest and best of everything, foresaw a bright future for their professional team with an estimated 1,000,000 fans to draw from. In theory, all that the 16 owners of the $100,000 Dallas franchise needed to do was draw crowds of 24,000 a game to break even. Anything above that figure would be gravy. In practice, as the outmanned Dallas team lost seven straight league games, attendance dropped off to 12,000 a game...