Word: ahead
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Inasmuch as the Post is printed three weeks ahead of publication, "Five O'Clock, Off California-" was not only a cracking Post piece but one more example of the uncanny Post prescience which has seemingly operated in an astonishing number of cases to link its articles with red-hot, unpredictable news. It was natural enough that the Post, like Collier's, should run a dirigible article at about the time of the Hindenburg's first voyage of the spring season.* But only by luck did the Post article deal with disaster...
...brilliant Lillian Leitzel of the circus was killed by a fall from a trapeze. Next week the Post carried an article about their professional risks by her husband, Alfredo Codona. Title: "Taking the Fall." In 1932, an issue of the S. E. P. hit the stands a week ahead of the Ivar Kreuger financial scandals with a long write-up of the Swedish 'match magnate by oldtime Postman Isaac Marcosson. In 1927, when the submarine S-4 was lost, the Post came on the stands the same week with an article by Commander Edward Ellsberg about the salvage...
...Collicr's was out one week ahead of the Hin-daiburg's arrival with an article describing the speed & comfort of the ship...
...clear that Messrs. Braddock, Louis, Schmeling, Gould, Kilpatrick, Roxborough, Johnston, Jacobs (bis), the Chicago promoters and the esteemed New York Athletic Commission intend to go right ahead with whatever they are doing in this heavyweight matter, 'de jure' or by 'force majeure' (Lincoln v. Douglas, 1860, U. S., and McLarnin v. Canzoneri, N. Y., 1936) and the whole action is thus left in escrow. Whatever the verdict, the promoters will pay costs...
...Before they did this, however, Pennsylvania's Liquor Control Board placed the largest liquor order on record ($30,000,000), stocked the State's store shelves solidly. Despite the fact that some nationally advertised brands have been unavailable since January, Pennsylvania State store profits are currently 12% ahead of last year, when the State made more on liquor ($14,000,000) than any one of the Big Three distillers. However, Governor George Howard Earle asked his Legislature not to renew the distillers' tax after the end of this month.* Absentees last week planned campaigns to recapture lost...