Word: bulletin
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...plant on the critical list emphatically does not mean that every skilled young worker in it will be draft-exempt. The demand for fighting men will be met even at the cost of some loss in war production. For, as General Hershey wapsodized in his monthly Selective Service bulletin: "Warriors win wars with weapons; but weapons will not win wars without warriors to wield them...
William Randolph Hearst's noisy New York Journal-American last week quietly admitted that the quiet Philadelphia Bulletin is now the No. 1 U.S. afternoon newspaper. For years the Journal-American has carried a 9-point-bold line in its Page One index: "Largest circulation of any evening newspaper in America." Last week the "in America" read "in New York City...
...Bulletin of Robert and William L. McLean Jr. was typically sedate about it all. In its advertising it stuck to its homework: "In Philadelphia Nearly Everybody Reads the Bulletin." But proudly, under its Old English masthead, the 96-year-old Bulletin recorded: "February circulation 657,440 copies daily." Hearstmen would give no figure beyond that of the last available Audit Bureau of Circulation. It showed the Journal-American with a quarter-year average (July...
What most astonished many a soldier reader of the Library bulletin was the language of the Library's recommendation of the article: "a comprehensive and objective appraisal of the General as Presidential timber, with special reference to the character of his backers and an analysis of his military reputation before Pearl Harbor and afterwards...
...blood spurted from a tiny puncture, that spiders have high blood pressure. Somehow they seemed to be able to raise or lower the pressure in their legs. When Ellis bled a spider, its leg stretching became much weaker. In a report of his findings in the Biological Bulletin, he noted another curious fact: "Spiders nearly always die with their legs completely and permanently flexed...