Word: depending
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...being the only paper on most stands and offering a pro forma digest of the other papers' chief comics and columns. (Sample: "Westbrook Pegler: He's still yammering about 'union racketeers'; George Sokolsky: He's not worth quoting either.") The city was forced to depend for most of its news on radio stations, which expanded newscasts and quoted from comics and columnists...
...North Africa, the U.S. advance was stalled for lack of air superiority. From the Solomons came little news of fighting. Sole bright spot on the fighting front was Buna, which finally fell into U.S. hands. But from one battlefront-on which all others ultimately depend-the nation received dramatic news of great successes...
...strikers left. Conductor Koussevitzky managed to rebuild the orchestra to the highest level. Two years ago Boss Petrillo barred the Bostonians from radio and recording studios under a threat to pull all union musicians out of the studios. Like most U.S. symphony orchestras, the Bostonians had come to depend less and less on wealthy patronage, more and more on broadcasting and recording fees. After two years off the air, the Symphony's trustees threw in the sponge, signed a union contract. Petrillo had won again...
Future peace, Niebuhr said, would depend upon the co-operation of intergovernmental groups, where labor and agricultural elements in one nation would join with those of other countries in a common objective...
...Tonight," is one of the most successful documentaries to develop from the Allied war effort. It's plot reaches the peak of realism, consisting entirely of an actual raid on an occupied port. The characters play their roles efficiently and quictly, as well they must, for their lives depend on it. The film is the best of all possible propaganda, actual truth...