Word: switches
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Barber uses the phoned reports to bridge the switch-overs from one "live" broadcast to another. By rotating in quick two-minute jumps, he can pick his spots so that a game comes on the air when a touchdown is imminent. It all adds up, says Barber, "to a panoramic view of the American football scene." Further, the Roundup eliminates the endless time-outs and the dull halftime period...
Fire! Then Murphy counted by seconds: "X minus 10 . . . 9 . . . 8 . . ." When he reached "5," Rosen ordered: "Fire!" A man at the control board pushed a switch, setting off the rocket's igniter. The rocket was not supposed to go off until "zero," but as Commander Murphy chanted "4 . . . 3 . . ." an enormous, fiery blast broke out from under its fins. For a fraction of a second, the rocket hesitated. For another fraction it rose slowly. Then it rose like a streak, as if an irresistible force had picked it off the earth and tossed it into the sky. Behind...
...reviews and audience apathy caused This Is Broadway to switch from being a Lonely Hearts clinic to a variety show, spiced with Fadiman's pontifical urbanity, Burrows' gags, and the astringent flavoring of Kaufman's strong dislikes (nightclubs, classical music, opera). The panel still listened to problems, but with more than half an ear for contrived comedy. (A soprano complains that her father won't let her go to Dallas without a chaperone. Fadiman: "Doesn't your father trust you?" Soprano:. "Yes, but he doesn't trust anyone else...
What brought all this on was some odd maneuvering by the Treasury itself. Two years ago several distillers asked it to approve, as legally aged, whisky stored in used casks during the wartime barrel shortage. Treasury refused, but later reversed itself. The switch would mean a profit (because of the increased value that would result) of some $90 million for a few big distillers, mostly outside Kentucky, who have 30 million gallons of whisky in secondhand barrels. When the industry squawked, Treasury held up its ruling, called last week's hearing...
...strikers offered to man certain switch-boxes from the Western zones into Berlin's Western sectors, while still blocking Soviet trains bound for the Russian sector. The Russians indignantly refused. Their German stooges said they were ready to pay 60% of the workers' wages in West marks. The strikers said no. They demanded all their pay in West marks-the demand which had precipitated, the strike. When Russian violence failed, it looked as if the strike might go on for a while. U.S. and British planes stepped up their airlift loads to 8,000 tons a day. Berliners...