Word: billboarded
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Sculptor Ziolkowski said the lines came from a letter Webster once wrote to John Jay, but to jittery West Hartfordians this looked like a personal insult. Sniffed the Hartford Courant: "If Mr. Ziolkowski chooses to use his statue of Noah Webster as a billboard on which to publish his feelings toward his fellow townsmen, that, of course, is his business." Wailed the West Hartford Metropolitan Shopping News: "Perhaps he has forgotten, as many men do today, the teaching of the Good Book which advocates in one place the turning of the other cheek...
...Uncle Sam Wants You" has become America's billboard rallying cry. Good pay, chances for rapid advancement, opportunities for learning--all these have been loudly ballyhooed by the service units of the nation, especially the Air Corps. To the college student, the glow seemed particularly rosy...
...Dropped from the Senate bill were the controversial levies on billboard advertising and income from radio sales...
...disappointing was Oil Controller George Cottrelle's half-way-to-rationing experiment that Canadians fully expected real rationing before long. To give voluntaryism one last chance, one oil company advertised, urging consumers not to use its product. Sign on a billboard flanking a service station in Toronto...
...girl named Wallie ("Babe") Coughlin to inherit his legacy. But all he knew about her was that he had seen her in 1918 at the age of five, toddling around the stage of a burlesque house in Fort Wayne, Ind. To find her, ads were run in Variety and Billboard. But not until the Court of Missing Heirs took the matter in hand were 240 potential Babes unearthed, of whom only three felt sure enough of their identity to head for Canada to claim the legacy...