Word: blanket
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Responsible for the Hollywood aspects of this experiment is a man named Vanda of CBS. CBS has invested $50,000 in a series of twelve try out shows (blanket title: Forecast) that it hopes will make hay when the summer doldrums are over. Last year, from a similar showcase, CBS sold Duffy's Tavern, now sponsored by Schick Magazine Repeating Razor Co. Besides Marlene's Scheherazade, other straw-hat sustainers this year will include Mischa Auer, Adolphe Menjou, Frank McHugh...
...Gave blanket priorities to shipyards for materials needed to build and outfit ways (A1a on ways which will turn out completed ships this year, A-1-b on ways which will not produce ships until...
...Seattle last week, a convention of the potent, closed-shop American Federation of Musicians unanimously blew a corporate kiss to its boss, James Caesar Petrillo. Blanket approval was voted for all of Boss Petrillo's executive acts of the year past...
...feet, with heels and toes stretching beyond the mattress, are set squarely against the footboard. Thus he exercises the muscular reflexes used for standing up. His arms are kept at his side, his knees straight. No splints or casts are used. Hot packs made of pieces of blanket wrung out of boiling water are laid on his paralyzed limbs. The packs are usually changed every two hours, every half hour in very serious cases...
...substitute for dramatic action. Out of the tiresome rhetoric, the pretty posturing of Blood and Sand only the bullfight scenes stand out. One of them is magnificent: a little Mexican boy named Jesús Angel, clad in a breech clout, armed solely with a white horse blanket, hazing a big black bull around a practice plaza de toros in the moonlight...