Word: clips
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Uruguay $7,500,000, part to finish a power dam on the Negro River started five years ago with German capital, the rest to improve the beef and wool indus tries. Since Great Britain has already bought all Uruguay's 1941 wool clip, the Uruguayan loan is indirect aid to Britain...
...must especially beware of that small group of selfish men who would clip the wings of the American eagle in order to feather their own nests...
...managed to play ball with recent Latin American dictators. It is more than friendly to Brazil's Dictator Getulio Vargas. It is not particularly concerned about Paraguay, where President Higinio Morinigo has declared himself dictator. But Paraguay is far away and Brazil is a pretty good clip, while the Republic of Panama, less than half as far, sits astride the most strategic waterway in the world...
Startling to many a sponsor were Miss McBride's broadcasts for WOR. Tooling along at a great verbal clip for 45 minutes, she frequently forgot which products she had plugged, usually wound up her show by asking her announcer if there was anything she'd overlooked. When sponsors complained about her methods, she told her listeners all about it, brought a deluge of letters to support her. Eager to prevent even "one teeny white lie" from, slipping into her program, she once spent an entire Sunday touring picnic grounds to discover how picnickers enjoyed a soft drink...
Through the streets of Boston last fortnight clip-clopped a horse ridden by a Negro wearing a ballet costume and a red wig. The plug, advertising the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo (see p. 38), was the bright idea of one of the brightest of young U. S. Museum directors: lanky, fair-haired James Sachs Plaut, of Boston's Institute of Modern Art. Smart Jim Plaut, 28, had arranged for the Institute to sponsor the opening of the Ballet, and to pocket any thing the box office took over $3,000. The Institute pocketed...