Word: sponsoring
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...would sponsor such a project? Having heard the plan, M.I.T. promised free tuition for any students they brought over. But all the rest Eames and Haynes would have to arrange themselves. They went to Washington, got the State Department's blessing, called at 22 foreign embassies and asked for students from each...
Dealer Horgan was able to buy so much unbooked time because station WOR-TV has been "dark" two nights a week. Pleased with the advertising impact to be expected from one sponsor taking over a station for a whole evening, Horgan further reported that the films, TV time, agency fees and services of 260-lb. M.C. "Happy" Felton fit into a modest weekly budget...
What the movie mainly lacks is enough respect for fiction. It is more convincing after it gets into outer space than during its earth-bound prelude, when a group of U.S. industrialists feel compelled to sponsor the lunar expedition because the Government fails to foresee the trip's military importance. Happily, the script draws the line at romance in the rocket or on the moon, but it does go in for some unrelieved comic relief by a lowbrow crew member from Brooklyn...
...contracts with nine major studios and independent producers, ECA promised to sponsor (as an addition to the regular Hollywood supply of six-guns and sin) 72 carefully selected pictures. The Government agreed to guarantee, on each movie, the conversion of shipping and supply costs and up to $25,000 in earnings from blocked Deutsche marks into dollars. Sample ECA-picked films: The Heiress, The Informer, The Hasty Heart, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs...
Died. William Lemke, 71, eight-term U.S. Congressman from North Dakota (he listed himself as "nonpartisan, elected on the Republican ticket"), co-sponsor of 1934's much-debated Frazier-Lemke Farm-Mortgage Act, 1936 presidential candidate of the short-lived Union Party founded by Father Charles E. Coughlin and the Rev. Gerald L. K. Smith (he polled 882,479 votes); in Fargo...