Word: adding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...page-one cartoon, the Tribune dramatized its own nobility. Around a forthright central figure curiously reminiscent of a Johnnie Walker whiskey ad revolved the Tribune's detractors in their ugliest guise: Spiders H. V. Kaltenborn and Walter Winchell with microphones; Moths Marshall Field and Frank Knox; Skunk Harold Ickes; cigaret-smoking Hen Dorothy Thompson; a lean crow representing the New York Herald Tribune, which dared recently to comment on some of the Chicago Tribune's antics...
...Stars & Stripes will have a World War II successor. Its name: Yank. "Publisher" will be ex-Stars & Stripesman Egbert White (vice president of Batten, Barton, Durstine & Osborn). Like its famed model, Yank will be edited by soldiers who prefer putting together a paper to wearing Sam Browne belts. Ad-less, like its predecessor, it will probably sell...
Grunting under record hauls of soldiers and war goods, smart, progressive Gulf, Mobile & Ohio Railroad (The Rebel Route) published a big ad in local papers: "This railroad is no longer operated primarily for the convenience of the traveling and shipping public...
...Swishers wrote an ad: "Let's Stop this 'Fiddling While Rome Burns.' " In it they accused Government, management, labor, themselves of just fiddling around. They demanded a "mighty chorus of national sacrifice, production and unity." And they proclaimed that they wanted a job of war work, would take no profits...
That was Monday. The ad was published as a full-page spread in newspapers throughout the country. On Saturday, out of an airplane stepped Henry E. Brunhoff, Cincinnati manufacturer of metal products, busy on war work. Swisher and Brunhoff put their heads together over blueprints of metal-stamping dies. Now they are at work...