Word: ap
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...making activities which were hitherto closed to it. P. A. can sell news for radio broadcasts, can supply special reports to public speakers, writers, magazines, can write radio shows and motion-picture scripts. One of its first jobs will be to handle revenues from Oliver Gramling's book. AP The Story of News (TIME, Nov. 4), which was written on assignment for A. P., has sold some 20,000 copies since October, is now being dramatized for radio...
...long ago as last July, British soldiers & sailors raided Saint-Malo in broad daylight (TIME, July 8). AP's William Mc-Gaffin, arriving in New York from London last week, told of at least nine sorties into German-held France by British volunteer motorcyclists. Slipping across the Channel at night, in little trawlers and fishing smacks, they landed at deserted sectors of the French coast, rattled off inland in groups of 50. One raid, detailed to harass the German Army of Occupation, capture prisoners and gather information, went as far as Amiens...
Despite Mr. Ronchi, it looked last week as if San Francisco would finally get the big frieze. The Board of Education ap-oroved Sculptor Johnson's drawing. So did the Art Commission, Mr. Ronchi dissenting. As a sop to him, the Commission held up formal approval of the clay models until slight changes should be made...
...first news of Rumania's earthquake, travelling nearly five miles a second, arrived at the Harvard Seismographic' station Sunday, thus beating out the UP and AP reports by one hour and seventeen minutes, it was learned last night...
...Author Gramling's book is clear, accurate, but not brilliant. He is apt to sacrifice speed of narrative for the sake of coverage. He is polite to rival agencies, balances Roy Howard's famed false flash on the Armistice that ended World War I by telling of AP's false report of the Hauptmann trial verdict...