Word: bulletin
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Just before the British elections 100 American newspapers were offered an article by Clement Attlee outlining his socialist policies. Five papers-the New York Herald Tribune, the Philadelphia Bulletin, the Cleveland Plain Dealer the Toronto Star, and the Chicago Sun-bought and printed it; the other 95 turned it down. Explanation by some who rejected the article: it was a little outside the main trend of events...
...sailor has come closer to being burned alive than anybody who has ever survived. Last week the Naval Medical Bulletin reported that flaming gasoline had burned 83% of the body surface of a 19-year-old sailor...
Philadelphia's Evening ("Almost Everybody Reads the") Bulletin last week hoisted a new kind of service flag. The flag was official, having received the approval of Major General James A. Ulio, Adjutant General. At the top it carried a gold star with the number 6 (for war dead); below it a blue star with the number 396 (for employes in service); at the bottom the eagle emblem of the honorably discharged, with the number 28 (for veterans who have been employed or re-employed by the Bulletin...
Across the Atlantic the story sped (British censors do not interfere with stories merely being relayed through London). In Manhattan, where Kennedy's story arrived at 9:27 a.m., top A.P. executives huddled for eight minutes at the cable desk, debating whether to send the bulletin on to the A.P.'s 2,500 clients. They considered the risks if the story didn't stand...
...early afternoon the Blue Network was telling its listeners that A.P. now said that the next day would be V-E day. Then, dusting its hands, Blue added in a low, firm voice: "That bulletin came from...