Word: chosen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Names. Previously the American Weekly got its regional U.S. coverage through the back door, from Hearst rewrite men around the country. They did Weekly stories for sideline cash without telling their local publishers - who might have chosen to run the story in their own news columns. Under the new system, Weekly stories will be ordered direct through the local Hearst publisher. If the plan works (i.e., if other Hearst brass hats will play along), Howey will have the whole Hearst empire at his beck & call...
Through all the hullabaloo, one fact was clear: the CAB had by no means settled everything by its rejection of the "chosen instrument" plan for postwar U.S.aviation. The airlines, urged by CAB to compete with each other, were not only competing, but also fighting (see below). They would probably go on doing so until Congress passed the definitive word. Sound airmen hoped it would waste no time when it sat down to work again...
...tribunal headed by stern Pierre Mongibeaux, 65, (in 1941 he had sworn loyalty to Pétain's Vichy Government). The public prosecutor was André Mornet, 75 (in World War I he sent Spy Mata Hari to the firing squad). The 24-man jury had been chosen half from the Resistance movement, half from non-collaborationist ex-parliamentarians. Behind the prisoner sat his counsel, his doctors and nurses, the witnesses (there would be about 50), the tightly packed reporters and spectators...
Winnipeg's willowy, blond Lenore Johannesson, 17, had been chosen as the "typical" Canadian girl, and her specifications were published for all to read. The details: hips, 36 in., bust 36, waist 26, calf 14, ankle 8½. She is 5 ft. 8½ in. tall, weighs...
...time, the film returns to the castaways and ends with their rescue, but it is chiefly concerned with Rickenbacker's life up to World War I. About his exploits in that war, and his career between World War I & II, it is very sketchy. But what it has chosen to tell is told with a good deal of charm...