* 1973 – The first Swanson Hungry-Man dinners were marketed ; these were larger portions of its regular dinner products.

That agreement expired in mid-2009 just before Pinnacle purchased Birds Eye Foods and Pinnacle discontinued the use of the Swanson name in favor of the Hungry-Man brand for its frozen dinners ( the Swanson frozen breakfast line had been rebranded Aunt Jemima several years before ).

Swanson & Sons ( the name in full was TV Brand Frozen Dinner ).

Swanson stopped using the name " TV Dinner " in 1962 ; in the United States the term remains synonymous with any prepackaged dinner purchased frozen in a supermarket and heated at home.

However, Swanson, a large producer of canned and frozen poultry in Omaha, Nebraska, was able to promote the widespread sales and adaptation of frozen dinner by using its nationally-recognized brand name with an extensive national marketing campaign nicknamed " Operation Smash " and the clever advertising name of " TV Dinner ," which tapped into the public's excitement around the new device.

* In the TV series Parks and Recreation, the character Ron Swanson only knows Julia Roberts as " the toothy girl from Mystic Pizza ".

Other neighbors and townspeople aired on a recurring basis, included Mrs. Elkins ( a widowed neighbor and the town gossip ), Mrs. Holland ( another widow that aired on a recurring basis in season one only ), Miss Cathcart ( a lonely spinster ), Mr. Quigley ( the grocer ), Opie Swanson ( the TV / appliance store owner ), Mr. Finch ( The druggist ), Sgt.

As a voice actor, his distinctive deep voice has heard in roles including Ken in Bee Movie, Kronk in The Emperor's New Groove and its sequels, bodyguard Brock Samson on The Venture Bros., paraplegic police officer Joe Swanson on Family Guy, Steve Barkin on Kim Possible, Buzz Lightyear in the Buzz Lightyear of Star Command TV series, and The Wolf in Hoodwinked, among others.

She is known for her roles as Deputy Sheriff Maxine Stewart in the TV series Picket Fences, as Mary Swanson in the 1994 film Dumb & Dumber, and as Jenny Shepard on the TV series NCIS.

Other TV roles included the 1974 TV movie Killer Bees with Gloria Swanson and guest appearances on such popular series as Quincy, M. E., The Love Boat, Fantasy Island, Happy Days, Hotel, and Murder, She Wrote.

Swanson logo on TV dinners

Swanson is a brand of TV dinners, broths, and canned poultry made for the North American market.

Then in 1952, Swanson & Sons introduced their TV brand TV dinner, quickly selling 5, 000 units in its first year.

* Too much turkey led Swanson to invent TV Dinner, an October 2004 column from the Lincoln Journal Star

* Swanson TV Dinner website

Where Van Helsing relied on a stake through the heart, in Vampires 1998, directed by John Carpenter, Jack Crow ( James Woods ) has a heavily-armed squad of vampire hunters, and in Buffy the Vampire Slayer ( 1992, directed by Fran Rubel Kuzui ), writer Joss Whedon ( who created TV's Buffy the Vampire Slayer and spin-off Angel ) attached The Slayer, Buffy Summers ( Kristy Swanson in the film, Sarah Michelle Gellar in the TV series ), to a network of Watchers and mystically endowed her with superhuman powers.

In recent years, Thomas ' TV Dinner role was disputed by former Swanson and Campbell employees, frozen food industry officials, and Swanson family heirs, who said the product was created by the Swanson brothers, Clarke and Gilbert.

" However, Pinnacle Foods, which currently owns Swanson, still credits Thomas with proposing the TV Dinner concept.

The Library of Congress says the history of the TV Dinner is murky, but notes that frozen dinners existed several years before Swanson made the idea famous.

National advertising for TV tray tables first appeared in 1952, a full year before Swanson introduced the TV dinner in October 1953.

Swanson asks Carpenter to dinner but Carpenter declines saying that he has been traveling for more than 50 hours.

Plum and Swanson described the symptoms of nine comatose patients, defining CNH as a syndrome consisting primarily of elevated arterial oxygen tension, decreased arterial carbon dioxide tension, and progressive tachypnea.

* Swanson, Vern G: Alma-Tadema: The Painter of the Victorian Vision of the Ancient World, Ash & Grant, London, 1977, ISBN 978-0-904069-08-2 ; Charles Scribner ’ s Sons, New York, 1977, ISBN 0-684-15304-1

Swanson joined Raytheon in 1972 and has held a wide range of leadership positions, including manufacturing manager of the company ’ s Equipment Division, general manager of the Missile Systems Division's Andover Plant, senior vice president and general manager of the Missile Systems Division, general manager of Raytheon Electronic Systems, and president, chairman and chief executive officer of Raytheon Systems Company.

Three container ship s berthed at Swanson Dock West

Container Straddle carrier s at Swanson Dock

With holdings of 50 pieces, Candler School of Theology at Emory University in Atlanta has acquired the largest collection of Swanson ’ s work.

* Swanson, Roy Arthur: “ The True, the False, and the Truly False: Lucian ’ s Philosophical Science Fiction ”, Science Fiction Studies, Vol.

The causes associated with conscious CNH are more varied than originally predicted by Plum and Swanson ’ s study of comatose patients, although the most commonly reported causes of CNH involve infiltrative gliomas and lymphomas of the brainstem and pons.

Determining the exact cause of CNH has proven to be difficult, specifically because only 21 additional cases have been reported since Plum and Swanson ’ s initial report of the condition in 1959.

Peggy's story was inspired in part by that of Gloria Swanson, who got her start as one of the Sennett Bathing Beauties at Mack Sennett's Keystone Studios before hitting it big as a dramatic actress, and who later married a French nobleman.

With Gloria Swanson in Indiscreet ( 1931 film ) | IndiscreetBy the mid 1940s he was working for 20th Century Fox.

| 31000 Rockchic || 1995 VV || Nickname of Gail Swanson, American singer-songwriter

Buffy the Vampire Slayer is a 1992 American action / comedy film about a Valley girl cheerleader named Buffy ( Kristy Swanson ) who learns that it is her fate to hunt vampires.

He also cast leading actors such as Claudette Colbert, Gloria Swanson, Gary Cooper, Jetta Goudal, Robert Preston, Paulette Goddard and Charlton Heston in multiple pictures.

Gloria Swanson immortalized DeMille with the oft-repeated line, " All right, Mr. DeMille, I'm ready for my close-up " in Billy Wilder's Sunset Boulevard, wherein DeMille played himself.

In January 2007, Bret Swanson of the Discovery Institute coined the term exaflood for a supposedly impending flood of exabytes that would cause the Internet's congestive collapse.

Hefner was born in Chicago, Illinois, the oldest of two sons born to Grace Caroline ( née Swanson ; 1895 – 1997 ) and Glenn Lucius Hefner ( 1896 – 1976 ), both teachers.

* Swanson, James L. ( 2010 ).

On March 29, 1928, a radio show was broadcast from Pickford's bungalow, featuring Douglas Fairbanks, Charles Chaplin, Norma Talmadge, Gloria Swanson, John Barrymore, D. W. Griffith and Dolores del Rio, among others, to speak on the The Dodge Brothers Hour to prove they could meet the challenge of talking movies.

Many important actors started their careers with Sennett, including Mabel Normand, Charlie Chaplin, Fatty Arbuckle, Raymond Griffith, Gloria Swanson, Ford Sterling, Andy Clyde, Chester Conklin, Polly Moran, Louise Fazenda, The Keystone Kops, Bing Crosby, and W. C. Fields.

And although Gloria Swanson worked for Sennett in 1916 and was photographed in a bathing suit, she was also a star and " vehemently denied " being one of the bathing beauties.

Mrs. Robert Swanson of West Miami won lifetime passes to Dolphin games when her nickname entry successfully predicted the winner and score of the 1965 football game between Notre Dame and the University of Miami, a scoreless tie.

* Jackie Swanson, actress.

Because Zukor believed in stars, he signed and developed many of the leading early stars, including Mary Pickford, Marguerite Clark, Pauline Frederick, Douglas Fairbanks, Gloria Swanson, Rudolph Valentino, and Wallace Reid.

As always, Paramount films continued to emphasize stars ; in the 1920s there were Swanson, Valentino, and Clara Bow.

Pat Mason, Glen Koelling, Bob Swanson and Vilma Radford claimed Patterson never repaid loans they made to him for a bigfoot movie Roger was planning.

Sunset Boulevard shows the disconnect between the two eras in the character of Norma Desmond, played by silent film star Gloria Swanson, and Singin ' in the Rain deals with the period where the people of Hollywood had to face changing from making silents to talkies.

Contemporary ideas from systems theory have grown with diversified areas, exemplified by the work of biologist Ludwig von Bertalanffy, linguist Béla H. Bánáthy, ecological systems with Howard T. Odum, Eugene Odum and Fritjof Capra, organizational theory and management with individuals such as Peter Senge, interdisciplinary study with areas like Human Resource Development from the work of Richard A. Swanson, and insights from educators such as Debora Hammond and Alfonso Montuori.