Word: dependence
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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United Press's Webb Miller knew well that world newsbeats seldom happen by accident. Big scoops more often depend on knowledge of lines of communication, as necessary to a newsman as to a brigadier general. Because Webb Miller knew his communications, he ranked as a general in the corps of war correspondents...
mass-production industries, most of which depend on nonwar markets, have not been cushioned by flush export business against domestic recession...
Most baseball umpires depend on their tongues and fists for protection against irate ballplayers. Umpire Bill Wilson was better equipped one night last week, when, at Fort Worth during a game between the San Antonio Missions and the Fort Worth Cats, the whole Mission team sprang toward him when, in the ninth, with the score tied, he called a Fort Worth player safe at home. Mr. Wilson instinctively pulled a knife...
...Avery's determination to step up the class of Ward's stock in trade-sell high-priced Oriental rugs, guns, etc. Last week Avery told reporters: "We no longer depend on hicks and yokels. We sell more than overalls and manureproof shoes...
Reason the dealers are so upset is that they depend on the high (in most cases, two-dollar) prices charged for Red Seal Classical records to give them their profits, feeling that the jazz helps only slightly, and serves more as a "loss-leader" or traffic enticement. In other words, It's very hard to run a store on just jazz records alone, unless you have a tremendous volume of business. The dealers are afraid that people will but the lower-priced, lower-profit-making Black Label, and endanger their greatest source of profit...