Word: bulletin
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...approached by a hopeful co-belligerent who said he was offering some interesting bargains in literary curiosa. As he flashed a tantalizing glimpse of his wares, the ambulance man noticed, among copies of "Spicy Tales," "Stolen Sweets," and the like, a lone, haughty copy of the Harvard "Alumni Bulletin." --New Yorker...
Nudity Is Not Enough. There was only a skeleton staff hanging around in the tabloid Daily News's city room when the Associated Press teletype clattered briefly, spewed forth a two-paragraph bulletin about the discovery of Patricia Lonergan's body. Customary Sunday evening doldrums vanished. Mention of a "nude body" and the murder weapons (candlesticks) was promising. But only when they saw "triplex apartment" and"Beekman Hill" did News staffers know they had something. The fastest-breaking crime staff in the U.S. swung into action...
...main business question is: How will U.S. business finance reconversion and postwar expansion? The Federal Reserve Bulletin answered last week: in July all U.S. businesses had the enormous mass of $39,000,000,000 tucked away in demand deposits. Said the Bulletin: "Business in the aggregate may be approaching a position where its reconversion and immediate postwar-expansion needs can be financed with a minimum of reliance on bank loans and other external financing. . . . But. . . many individual firms or even entire groups may still [be] short of funds...
...newsroom bulletin board of the New York World-Telegram went a directive on crisp writing (to save newsprint). The directive's author: Scripps-Howard Editor in Chief George B. Parker. Its message...
...London: "This is London, here is the news, and this is John Snagg reading it: The world came to an end at two minutes after three this afternoon, during a debate in the House of Commons. A summary of the debate will be given at the end of this bulletin. Due to the unusual nature of the event and also to the fact that he was away at the time, Mr. Churchill could not be reached immediately to comment on the policy which His Majesty's Government intends to pursue regarding the situation...