Word: sponsoring
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...veteran radio giveaway, makes its TV bow with a noisy M.C. (Warren Hull), an even noisier studio audience, and a batch of contestants who can win as much as $500 (sample question: "What great U.S. President married Martha Custis?"). Before, during and after the questions, Sponsor Colgate-Palmolive-Peet hawks its products with giant display cards, man-sized toothpaste tubes, animated cartoons, singing commercials, and free samples dumped in each contestant...
...system of food distribution: henceforth crops will be forcibly collected from the peasants, put in a central pool at Tirana. Peasants will then buy back food for their own use under the same rationing conditions and at the same high prices as city dwellers. By making Hoxha personal sponsor of the measure, the Russians made him the scapegoat of enraged farmers. Russian food policy, confiscation of property and police terror have made his regime the most hated in Albania's history...
...encouragement. Despite antiaircraft fire, strange planes have been flying over Albania dropping leaflets with the message: "Long live Albanian liberty. Do not lose faith. You will be freed soon." After each leaflet raid Shehu's police try to hold residents indoors until all leaflets have been picked up. Sponsor of the leaflets is the Free Albania Committee, whose headquarters is in New York City and which wants to bring back King Zog, now in exile in Egypt. Who supplies the aircraft is a Balkan mystery. Yugoslavia anxiously disclaims all responsibility, points out that trouble in Albania might...
Lavish Cafeteria. Against a "nearer background," Van Dusen follows the subsequent course of education in the U.S. Originally, he points out, "the church was the parent and sponsor of education. And religion was the keystone of the educational arch." But as the nation and its knowledge expanded, so did education. Courses and colleges multiplied, and education more and more became afflicted with the curse of specialization ("so stunting to large-mindedness, so fatal to comprehension of the whole truth, that is, the real truth"). And with specialization came secularization...
...pull out of Rollins en masse unless Wagner resigned. Someone put a "For Sale" sign in front of Wagner's house as an unmistakable hint. Some seniors demanded that ex-President Holt hand out their diplomas rather than Wagner. _ And even Hamilton Holt, Wagner's original sponsor, reversing himself, lent his powerful voice to the anti-Wagner camp...