Word: adding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Fifth Army advance been slowed down to the same grudging ad vance of hill to hill - when a breakthrough of the Gothic Line has definitely been claimed? That is the question being heard from armchair strategists and also from front-line fighters who could not help but be amazed when they read: Fifth Army Cracks Gothic Line Defenses." Rivers & Rain. While the controversy stirred the rear, G.Ls in the front struggled patiently with the tenacious Ger mans. The Americans fell back before a counterattack, riposted to regain lost ground and more. By week's end, Raticosa Pass was captured...
Farmers and farm editors chortled. A full-page Wartime Prices and Trade Board anti-inflation ad showed a cow being milked on the wrong side (the cow's right side is her right side...
...song shark's most familiar bait is a small ad along these lines: "Send us your poems for expert criticism. You may have a song hit. Upon acceptance, we edit, publish, record your song and bring it to the attention of bands and broadcasting studios...
...before Election Day in 1936 the Tribune headlined a story from Riga, Latvia by its veteran correspondent Donald Day: "MOSCOW ORDERS REDS IN U.S. TO BACK ROOSEVELT." The Times promptly offered $5,000 for proof that the story was true. The Tribune blustered it out with a full-page ad boasting of its great "news beat," but never offered to collect...
...undeveloped field in the U.S. airline business. To keep it under control CAB wants to license only as many routes as the traffic will bear. In Colorado CAB must decide between applicants representing every shade of free enterprise, from well-heeled air lines to weathery, leathery extrovert ad venturers with shoestring capital. If licenses were granted to all, the West would be cobwebbed with airlines covering 190 cities...