Word: adding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Political advertising caused a little flurry in the fall of '44, when the Harvard conservative League inserted an ad telling people to "Vote For Dewey." The name "Dewey" referred to the moustached man now serving as governor of New York State and then a Republican candidate for President. The Navy demanded that all its papers be picked up and taken out of circulation...
...edition from the U.S. to our loyal 3,077 British subscribers. Soon thereafter, British authorities raised our quota to 30,000 and let us fill it with copies of our Paris-printed edition for U.S. troops in Europe. Then finally, a fortnight ago, we began printing a full-sized, ad-carrying edition of TIME in Paris for delivery to civilian readers in France. England, and the Low Countries within 24 hours of its delivery date...
...fate of her native Tyrol, the more Miss Frankie Miller worried. Finally she sat down and wrote Britain's Foreign Minister a letter about it. Instead of mailing the letter, she took it to the New York Times, paid $693 to have it printed last week as an ad. Said Frankie Miller to Ernie Bevin: "Humbly I beg your Excellency to have the [liberation] of South Tyrol brought before the UNO. ... I also challenge the zone occupation of Austria...
...Manhattan last week, apartment hunters followed a newspaper ad which offered 2½-room cooperative apartments in a "new development" with "elevator, steam heat, Frigidaires." The trail led to a grimy old six-story tenement with an assessed value of $15,000, in a run-down neighborhood off First Avenue. The modern apartments existed only on a set of architect's plans, the building was not open for inspection, the work of remodeling had not yet started. But the owner easily sold 14 apartments for $3,500 each, and the monthly carrying charges were far above rents prevailing...
Next Playwright Anderson let fly in an ad in the Herald Tribune: "It is an insult to our theater that there should be so many incompetents and irresponsibles among [the reviewers]. ... Of late years all plays are passed on largely by a sort of Jukes family of journalism...