Word: blows
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Here Is Hugo. In the British-occupied zones, the blow fell on German industrialists. In a sweeping move to denazify the Ruhr industries, the Control Council arrested 40 leading officials of the powerful Rhine-Westphalian coal syndicate. Biggest fish in the British net: Tycoon Hugo Stinnes, 48, son of Germany's onetime greatest financier and powerful figure in the Ruhr coal and steel industries. Said the British: "Such men represent the worst in Germany . . . never hesitated to use their vast power to support dubious political movements . . . assisted in the growth of the National Socialist Party...
...Lucky General. Eichelberger, never a man to blow his own horn, attributed his showing to his troops and to a lot of luck. His soldiers knew that he had a lot more than luck...
There were so many reporters (300-odd) scrambling around the battleship Missouri in Tokyo harbor last week that they spilled over their assigned space on the ship's deck. Dozens of the U.S. newsmen were looking for Joe Blow, the local boy who made good. Aboard one destroyer transport, the squawk box ordered all New York men to double to the fo'c'sle to meet the New York Times's representative. He turned out to be the Times's general manager himself, Brigadier General Julius Ochs Adler. Lesser reporters, many with the names...
Ever since David Bushnell invented the first underwater warship (the Turtle, which tried, unsuccessfully, to blow up the British frigate Eagle in New York harbor in 1776), naval men have dreamed of a true submarine, i.e., one which would practically never have to come to the surface. Last week Secretary of the Navy James Forrestal revealed that the Germans came dangerously close...
...have $11 million-a-year worth of radio enterprise (soap operas, Truth or Consequences, etc.), signed Smith for two years, and plan to blow $1,600,000 a year on the show-which is a lot of Oxydol. It is a good contract for Jack Smith: if P & G decide to drop him, they lose the right to the prize radio time (held for three years by Chesterfield)-and meanwhile Jack Smith can sing on as many other radio shows as he, and his fans, can take...