Word: billboarded
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...Athenaeum was soon extravagantly restored. Its new, heavily-gilded proscenium and cushioned seats (the first in any Boston theatre) led an inspired advertising agent to boast in billboard posters...
...radio does not worry about the possibility of the British Broadcasting Corp. invading the U.S. air. But results of a BBC survey, announced last week in Billboard, show that at least four of its U.S.-aimed programs (Transatlantic Call, Stars & Stripes in Britain, American Eagle Club and Radio Newsreel) have caught on with two U.S. audiences: the A (high income-education) and the D (lowest income-education) groups...
...Kleiser and Foster picked up a $75,000 advertising business in Portland and Seattle for $5,000 cash (they gave notes for the rest), expanded it up & down the coast, were grossing an average of $5,500,000 yearly when war blacked out the West Coast billboard business...
...Franklin Roosevelt is the most unaccountable and on the whole the most enemy-baffling President that this United States has ever seen. He has added a certain vast impudent courage to a vivid but constructive imagination and he has displayed his capacity for statesmanship in the large and simple billboard language that the common people can understand. . . . Well, darn your smiling old picture, here it is! Here, reluctantly amid seething and snorting, it is. We, who hate your gaudy guts, salute...
...real heroes, forced into your unwilling role of billboard heroes, we the people, apologize...