Word: backed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Abner (Sat. 7 p.m., CBS). Back for the fall season...
...have always recognized," Dr. Summerskill told a Market Research Society meeting in London, "that there is one thing the British housewife longed for, and that was to get back to bacon & eggs. I am sure," she admitted, "that every man here longs for a nice big juicy steak." But such yearnings, she insisted, were in reality nothing but an anachronistic hangover from the days of arrant capitalism when "meat was an index of prosperity," when men "ate steaks [because] it was the thing to do, like wearing a white stiff collar . . ." Enlightened Socialism "had established new feeding habits showing themselves...
Hitler's financial Merlin, Dr. Hjalmar Schacht, who was acquitted of war crimes in Niirnberg, was back at the old stand with a sure cure for Germany's ailing finances. In a new book, Schacht called for a return to the gold standard and a billion-dollar U.S. gold loan to Germany to back the mark...
...about a year ago. Newsmen scraped together hints that suggested a wedding by Christmas. It would be the second for each.* The most piquant hint came from the mayor himself. Asked pointblank for his intentions, O'Dwyer parried: "I will discuss that after the election." Then he leaned back in his chair and whistled a few bars of Some Enchanted Evening...
Globe-trotting Radio Commentator Lowell Thomas flew back home from Asia 15 Ibs. lighter than he went in. Though on crutches with the thigh fracture he suffered when thrown in Tibet by a half-wild pony, he could reminisce about his native diet of yak butter and yak meat cooked over fires of yak dung; his recorded broadcast from the forbidden Tibetan capital (carried to India by yak), and his gifts to Tibet's 15-year-old Dalai Lama (a gold & silver Siamese tiger skull, an alarm clock, a raincoat...