Word: cones
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Foote, Cone & Belding's Ralph B. Austrian sounded an even more ominous note on the loss in radio listeners. The gist of his news: Television sets are wooing away from radio a rapidly increasing part of its audience and establishing "a new trend in listening habits. The final effect will be a reduction in radio billings." The cash thus freed, thought Austrian, would soon begin to flow into television, for which he saw a bright future. By the end of next year, he predicted, television would command an audience of 4,500,000 with 750,000 television sets...
...shocked by the modern artists who paint from imagination-and most of whom (Picasso, Braque and Duchamp) credit him with showing the way. For him, nature was everything, in spite of the fact that what he kept seeing in nature was, he insisted, "the cylinder, the sphere and the cone, all put into perspective...
...creating a Press Club, and soon a teen-aged horde was released on any loose celebrity around. When Harry Truman visited Chicago last spring, Val suggested to her boss that the Press Club interview the President. "Little girl," said he, "go out and buy yourself an ice-cream cone." But Val talked her boss into it, and Truman agreed. Her conference was the only one the President gave in Chicago. Said Val: "It was precedent-breaking. It made history. It was keen...
Even when, on the evening of March 18, we turned out to watch the red hot ribbons winding down the cone, there was no inkling of violence and the next day we took time out to get a closer view of the molten streams on higher levels. Four nights later, though, ominous rumblings shook the ground under us, and a new form of rain descended on us rain which cut right through our tents...
Although the towns on Vesuvius clustered nearer the cone than those on Etna, none was seriously damaged by the several threatening flows, but the funicular railway on the slope was completely overwhelmed and ashes were reported to have fallen in Albania, 300 miles away