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Retro Ad of the Week: TWA, 1952. While the first commercial flight technically happened over a century ago, it really wasn’t so far back that jets started revolutionizing business and leisure travel. TWA differentiated itself from competitors like PanAm with emotional advertising like this example from 1952.
1955 ( MCMLV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1955th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 955th year of the 2nd millennium, the 55th year of the 20th century, and the 6th year of the 1950s decade.
Budget. $682,580 [1] Box office. $1.6 million (US rentals) [2] Jack and the Beanstalk is a 1952 American family comedy film starring the comedy team of Abbott and Costello and featuring Buddy Baer, Dorothy Ford and Barbara Brown. It is a comic retelling of the "Jack and the Beanstalk" fairy tale, produced by Abbott and Costello and distributed ...
1952–present. Materials. Plastic. Felt (formerly) Mr. Potato Head is an American toy brand produced by Hasbro since 1952. It consists of a plastic model of a potato "head" to which a variety of plastic parts can attach — typically ears, eyes, shoes, hat, nose, pants and mouth. Mr. Potato Head was invented and manufactured by George Lerner ...
1950 ( MCML) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1950th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 950th year of the 2nd millennium, the 50th year of the 20th century, and the 1st year of the 1950s decade.
Anno Domini. Anno Domini inscription at Klagenfurt Cathedral, Austria. The terms anno Domini ( AD) and before Christ ( BC) [a] are used when designating years in the Julian and Gregorian calendars. The term anno Domini is Medieval Latin and means "in the year of the Lord" [1] but is often presented using "our Lord" instead of "the Lord", [2] [3 ...
Bob Bowlsby. Robert Addison Bowlsby (born January 10, 1952) is an American college athletic administrator. Bowlsby most recently was the fourth commissioner of the Big 12 Conference, a position he held from 2012 to 2022. [1] Prior to that position, he served as the athletic director at the University of Northern Iowa, [2] University of Iowa ...
