Word: boastings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Tension. Though he can boast such entertainment highs as his modern-dress Julius Caesar, the tense The Rival Dummy with Paul Lukas, and the pyrotechnic pageantry of Battleship Bismarck, Miner feels that "the best type of play for us is the psychological melodrama-it always gets the best response and the highest rating...
...pink-cheeked Ernest Lynn Kurth, 64, a jack of all trades-lumber, insurance, banking, theaters, construction, utilities, machinery-and master of all as well. Kurth's dozen-odd enterprises employ 3,250, indirectly support 50% of Lufkin's population. But the Kurth achievement that most East Texans boast about, and the one that is of prime importance to the Southern economy, is newsprint. Set up only nine years ago as the South's first newsprint producer, Kurth's $18 million Southland Paper Mills, Inc. last week was rolling out enough newsprint (132,718 tons last year...
Continuation of propaganda methods which boast only density of barrage will not win respect in a hostile society. Only when the ISD attracts personnel who understand what constitutes democratic behavior and who can demonstrate it themselves will America earn dividends in its biggest publicity campaign...
...biggest hotelman. His 13 hotels in the U.S., Mexico and Puerto Rico-ranging from a small hotel in Lubbock, Texas to Manhattan's famed Waldorf-Astoria-have an estimated worth of $125 million and a replacement value of $175 million. He employs 11,250 people, and likes to boast that in his 12,500 rooms he "could sleep in a different bed every night for 40 years...
Collectively the Niemans boast a total of 19 children. Their families are living in houses in and around Cambridge, and the journalists condemn local rents as "higher than anywhere else...